Re: [AD] Two custom mouse cursor patches

["Peter Hull" <peterhull90@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:50 AM, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok, I've commited a slightly cleanedup version of my previous patch.
> Quirks and comments are in the commit log, but I'll recap here.
Good work! I'll check but my gut feel is that you've got more
'retain's than 'releases' so there may be some memory issues.

Pete

>
> I changed my mind about moving the functions into qzmouse.m, because
> in the design the mouse cursor display functions live in the graphics
> driver vtable, not the mouse driver vtable. Since qzmouse.m also
> depends on osxgl.h, I don't think there's a clear reason to do it
> otherwise since the argument that qzmouse.m is seperate from the
> OpenGL code doesn't hold. Maybe it should, but that's another matter.
> It's easily changed later on anyway.
>
> The mouse pointer is set to the system default if you switch in to
> the window and doesn't get changed until you move the mouse in and
> out of the window (triggering a mouseEntered event). I tried setting
> the mouse cursor explicitly in various places but to no avail. I'mm
> not sure what sort of event signaled when the window becomes active,
> I assumed windowDidBecomeMain. I read through the NSView guide as
> well, but couldn't find a solution.
>
> The mouse cursor doesn't get set in fullscreen mode. At all. I can
> turn it on and off (using the same functions as for the windowed
> code, any reason there are seperate functions to hide and unhide the
> mouse in fullscreen mode?) but I can't get it to change. Google was
> no help, nor where the NSView and NSCursor references.
>
> When using multiple windows the code behaves a bit strange. It seems
> to work well for a bit, changing the cursor whenever the mouse leaves
> one window and enters the next, but things get a bit weird after a
> while. The shape is either lost completely, or seems to get swapped
> between the two windows. This might be related to the first issue, I
> don't know. I made an attempt at fixing this but didn't try very hard.
>
> Evert
>
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