Auto hide cursor

[headkaze]

I found this little program that runs in system tray and will hide the cursor after a few seconds of inactivity. Dunno if it will work with GameEx since I don't think it will hide the egg timer cursor, but I havn't tried it yet (can someone confirm).

http://www.ezblitz.com/TimsHideCursor/TimsHideCursor.exe

Here is an explaination on how he did it..

I used a timer which fires every second. In the handler I call

GetCursorPos(&pos)

and compare it with the previous position. If it changes I show the mouse

HCURSOR cursor = app->LoadCursor(IDC_POINTER);

SetSystemCursor(cursor, 32512);

else I hide it and use a transparent icon.

I didn't bother using the hooks method, although this would have shown the mouse quicker when it began to move again.

This would be a nice function in GameEx, rather than hiding it completely.