Mouse cursor invisible in full-screen SDL

[qwach]

With something as mouse-oriented as Mac OS 9, this is sort of a problem. The SDL FAQ (http://sdl.beuc.net/sdl.wiki/FAQ_Mouse_Cursor_Disappears_in_Fullscreen) has the following to say about it: "You're directly accessing the video memory, and the video driver doesn't support hardware cursor overlays. Simply create the cursor as a sprite and blit it onto the screen where the mouse cursor coordinates are."

[qwach]

Ubuntu 12.10, self-compiled from version 7782a40.

[vasi]

It looks like in fullscreen SDL on Linux, video_can_change_cursor() indicates that we should use a hardware cursor, but the driver_fullscreen constructor expects a software cursor and doesn't initialize the hardware one.

It used to be that fullscreen always used a software cursor, but commit be28a8e put the check if (display_type != DISPLAY_WINDOW) return false inside an #ifdef APPLE . Was this an accident? Moving the check out of the ifdef makes the cursor work again.

Alternatively, if I make driver_fullscreen initialize the hardware cursor, that seems to work too. Is there a reason why the hardware cursor isn't used in fullscreen mode?

[RonaldPR]

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Op 5 april 2013, om 06:56, schreef Dave Vasilevsky notifications@github.com:

Is there a reason why the hardware cursor isn't used in fullscreen mode?

I suppose it has/had to do with different SDL versions. SDL (I forgot which version) did support the hardware cursor in window mode only, then later SDL versions did not support the hardware cursor at all (also not in window mode), and now current versions do support the hardware cursor again, at least in window mode. Probably no one tried if the hardware cursor was now also supported in fullscreen mode.

Ronald.

[vasi]

Ronald, I think that issue with SDL was only on Macs. AFAIK, the Linux code always used a hardware cursor in windowed SDL mode.

[qwach]

I can see the mouse cursor fine now, but it's much too fast, and I can't run Mac OS 9 at my native resolution anymore. I'll open separate issues for that.