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[Solved] How to show or hide the mouse while on other forms in the desktop ?
«
on:
February 17, 2017, 01:28:56 pm »
Hi all
It will be different from the following codes.
How can I hide the mouse as it applies to all programs on the desktop.
Code: Pascal
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[+]
[-]
procedure
TForm1
.
FormMouseEnter
(
Sender
:
TObject
)
;
begin
ShowCursor
(
False
)
;
end
;
procedure
TForm1
.
FormMouseLeave
(
Sender
:
TObject
)
;
begin
ShowCursor
(
True
)
;
end
;
and
Code: Pascal
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[+]
[-]
Form1
.
Cursor
:
=
crNone
;
// or Screen.Cursor:=crNone;
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Re: How to show or hide the mouse while on other forms in the desktop ?
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Reply #1 on:
February 17, 2017, 04:12:29 pm »
Hello,
This is generally considered to be a poor design choice. If you still wish to do it it is likely you will need to create a way to do it for each platform you are interested in. Under Windows, for
example
(from
here
). As you might be able to glean from that solution it's a nonstandard thing to do and each Window expects to be able to set its own cursor style.
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Re: How to show or hide the mouse while on other forms in the desktop ?
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Reply #2 on:
February 17, 2017, 05:08:05 pm »
That's a "poor design choice" for desktop applications, but if you are using SDL/GLFW/whatever, then you can do this in a cross platform, consistent way.
Haven't done this (yet) with Lazarus/FPC, but there are several LCL/FPC game libraries around.
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Re: How to show or hide the mouse while on other forms in the desktop ?
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Reply #3 on:
February 17, 2017, 05:16:33 pm »
Well..
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RAW
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Re: How to show or hide the mouse while on other forms in the desktop ?
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Reply #4 on:
February 17, 2017, 05:30:09 pm »
The easiest way would probably be to build your own fully transparent cursor and load that one.
Like the attached one...
EDIT: exactly like the mouse in the picture...
EDIT2: But I would suggest to use ClipCursor or something like that, because a transparent cursor is still active, so the user can click on whatever...
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Last Edit: February 17, 2017, 06:24:58 pm by RAW
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Re: How to show or hide the mouse while on other forms in the desktop ?
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Reply #5 on:
February 17, 2017, 06:33:34 pm »
Greeting Dear RAW and Dear Thaddy and Dear jacmoe and Dear guest
Thank you very much for solving my problem.
Code: Pascal
[Select]
[+]
[-]
....
uses
windows
,...
....
SetSystemCursor
(
Screen
.
Cursors
[
crNone
]
,
OCR_NORMAL
)
;
// hide
...
SystemParametersInfo
(
SPI_SETCURSORS
,
0
,
nil
,
WM_SETTINGCHANGE
or
SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE
)
;
// show
....
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