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The real advantage of using a hardware cursor is that it won't flicker
and will get updated "real time" (not until the buffer is drawn to the
screen, thus afected by the frame rate).
The problem is that the cursor may not done in hardware, but in
software, which means flickering (and in this case it may be worse
than using allegro's software mouse). I don't know if there's a way to
ask Windows if it's really using a hardware cursor or not.
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 03:02:10 -0700, Chris <kcat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> aj wrote:
> > are hardware cursors faster ?
>
> Hardware cursor might be a bit of a misnomer. It's actually an OS cursor
> (though the OS usually does do it in hardware so it's not totally
> mis-named). Yes, it'll be faster since Allegro doesn't have to worry
> about repeatedly drawing the cursor and avoiding mouse trails, and also
> makes it safer since Allegro won't have to draw in a timer.
>
> - Kitty Cat
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