Re: [AD] Using system mouse cursor

[Chris <kcat@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Wang wrote:
> I'm all for this.  It's been on the table for a while.  I think the plan 
> was that set_mouse_sprite(NULL) would use the hardware cursor where 
> possible.

It was my understanding that Allegro was supposed to use the 
hardware/system cursor where possible anyway, as long as it could 
properly change it. How hard would it be to get Windows, X, OSX, etc to 
change its mouse cursor to the bitmap passed to set_mouse_sprite? 
Allegro should set GFX_HW_CURSOR under this circumstance since it would 
be being controlled by the OS and possibly really in hardware (I know 
Win9x has problems using custom mouse pointers in hardware, but Win2k, 
WinXP and X should be able to do it without a problem). THough in either 
case, this would still be true: "When this flag is set, it is safe to 
draw onto the screen without hiding the mouse pointer first." which is 
he whole point to doing it.

- Kitty Cat