Why doesn't Show/Hide cursor not work?

Hi, I'm making a little game with DirectDraw and I use the: Public Declare Function ShowCursor Lib "user32" (ByVal bShow As Long) As Long

then in the form load sub I type ShowCursor 0, and when I run my program the cursor is still there. WHy?? Help please!

Thanks.

Works just fine for me. Might want to change the ShowCursor 0 to ShowCursor False. Dunno if that will fix it..

Z.

This is kind of strange, but...

This happened to me too when I had my Savage4 video card. When I got my GeForce2 it seemed to go away (I'm as confused about this as you guys are :confused: )

Got some weird results with that too, although using DirectInput with almost-exclusive mouse access seemed to work (needed the mouse anyways :))

And calling that function when Windows processes the WM_SETCURSOR worked too, but that would be a little bit tricky in VB :)

About the video card, I already have a GeForce 2, so that is not the problem. Maybe there is a property setting on the Form somewhere that I have to set. I don't know.

Thanks anyways!

Maybe it's just one of those weird VB things. I wouldn't be surprised if it was VB who puts the cursor back ;)

In order for the cursor to go away you have to use "ShowCursor (0)" - notice the 0 in parantathese. And I also put that statement in the DX_Init sub, NOT in the Form Load.

Yeh, it must be one of those VB things;)

:D