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- Subject: Re: [AD] Default behaviour of mouse
- From: Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:44:17 +0200
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 14:07 +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2008-09-03, Trent Gamblin <trent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm assuming from the fact that I have to add al_show_mouse_cursor()
> > to some of the examples that the behaviour is different between OSs
> > or drivers. What should be the default? Mouse hidden or mouse shown?
>
> Shown by default is probably better. In a windowed environment, the
> mouse cursor is on by default. Programs which hide it better have good
> reasons for it.
>
I agree - it always bothered me how A4 programs would hide the mouse
cursor for no good reason. Of course, Windows fullscreen simply has no
mouse cursor - but all we can do about that is mention it in the docs
and encourage users to check for current mouse cursor availability (do
we have a way to do that?) - and draw one themselves in Windows
fullscreen.
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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>