Re: [AD] Hardware cursor buglet

[Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 14:58 +0200, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> \begin{offtopic}
> damn sourceforge for hodling up messages for more than 24 hours

yes, very irritating.

> \end{offtopic}

> 
> > Hm, makes sense. But in case you use set_gui_screen, the previous patch
> > still makes sense.. since if a HW cursor is used, you still don't want
> > the GUI to draw to the gui_screen (if it works as I understand it).
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean... current CVS behaves normally for me in all
> cases where I've tested it (even if Allegro does not tell you if you have a

current CVS has that patch applied..

> hardware cursor, you can still tell by it getting clipped to Allegro's
> window or not). Is that with your patch applied or without it?
> I don't think the value of gui_screen should affect mouse drawing, except
> that if the GUI is not being drawn to screen (I think that means
> gui_screen=NULL) the GUI probably should not try to show the mouse.
> 

I didn't try it - I'm just assuming, the mouse is drawn with
show_mouse(gui_screen) - so in that case, a HW cursor would disappear.
May be wrong though..


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Elias Pschernig