[RESOLVED] Hide Mouse Cursor in NullDC

[KRC]

Finally got NullDC fully working within GameEX (Yay).

How do you disable mouse for NullDC within GameEx or at least be able to hide the mouse cursor ?

[Draco1962]

I have seen a program mentioned on other forums called NoMousy. I am not sure if that will provide you with a solution. If you do use it, my guess is that you may want to set it to "load before" NullDC in your emulator settings.

I will ask for additional feedback on this at this time from Frequency and Adultery, or anyone else that has encountered a similar issue.

[KRC]

I read about NoMousy in the forums but couldn't find where I read about it. I'll give it a shot and let you know how I get on, I know that to hide the mouse cursor in nestopia you use NoMousy, but I don't use it because my mouse cursor isn't present when using nestopia within GameEx.

[nullPointer]

Have you ever fooled around with AutoHotKey? It would be pretty simple to write a script to move the mouse cursor to the absolute lower left corner of the screen or somesuch. I think I may even have one laying around somewhere if you're interested. I'll have to take a look.

Edit: It didn't take very much looking, so here it is. This is an excerpt of a script I wrote for Nestopia some time back. In this case the mouse is moved to the upper right side of the screen (just under the emulator menu), at the fastest speed possible. If you're interested here's the API documentation for the MouseMove function.

; This process is designed to handle any special actions that must be taken upon

; returning focus to the game window. This will be unique from one emulator to the next

returnToGameWin()

{

; ***********************************************************************************

; The following behavior may be unique to nestopia.

; Upon returning from a dialog box the application menu has focus and

; controller/keyboard input is disabled. The following code will give focus back

; to the game window:

; Move the mouse to a predictable area of the screen. This helps to avoid

; accidentally mousing over the emulator menu where the subsequent right click will

; have no effect

MouseMove, 0, 100, 0,

; Right clicking the mouse will fully return focus to the game window

Click right

; ***********************************************************************************

}

[Krakerman]

Here is the link to it for anyone interested in NoMousy

[KRC]

I have AutoHotKey_L installed already on my system, would that be the correct version.

[nullPointer]

That would do it. It's been a while since I've done anything with it, but I believe that is still the recommended (active) branch of AutoHotKey.

[KRC]

I'll try both methods of NoMousy and using an AHK script and see which one works best for me. Thanks for the input guys.

[fRequEnCy]

There's a plugin for this that's included with GameEx written by .

[KRC]

All sorted now, tried both methods and both work fine. ill stick with NoMousy at present, thanks for the input guys.