Improvement to windowed mode

[pziko]

In windowed mode the windows cursor is visible as well as the game cursor. This is annoying but the following simple addition to window.cpp gets rid of it.

At the end of Window::eventRouter, just after the WM_DESTROY message handler add:

   case WM_SETCURSOR:  //Remove cursor in windowed mode
      ShowCursor(false);
      return false;
      break;

[hailstone]

I did the same thing a while back but I can't find the post now.

Anyway, the problem is that the same value for Windowed in glest.ini is being used to decide whether to show the cursor or not.

In main.cpp:

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int glestMain(int argc, char** argv){
...
...
showCursor(config.getBool("Windowed"));
...
...

What I did was create another entry in glest.ini to do this task so it is independent of being fullscreen. The other option would just to set it to false.

This way will work on Windows and other OSs. I'm not sure if it works with toggling fullscreen. I'd say the cursor stays what the value is set in main. There is nothing to suggest otherwise in window.cpp in Window::toggleFullscreen().

[pziko]

Ha, I hadn't noticed the showCursor command in glestMain().

You are quite right, changing it there is all you need, no need to intercept the message. I can't think of any reason a user would ever want to see two cursors so I'm just going to change it to showCursor(false) there and leave it at that.

[ArcaneTime]

Where would I find the window.cpp file?
B/c this cursor thing is driving me nuts...
I tried to open the .exe with the C++ software -- guessing this isn't how it's done, so any suggestions?

[ZaggyDad]

You have to get the source. You should probably take a look at this:

http://www.glest.org/glest_board/viewtopic.php?t=3271

~Zaggy