MouseFlashing

Hello all,

I am quite familar with using gdi to create animation in my apps/games, but I just began using DirectX. I was suprized to find how much easier DDraw was to implement that I first imagined and I was able to create a small trivial game for learning purposes in no time. Now to my problem, the mouse pointer flickers very badly (so badly, in fact, that the mouse pointer becomes nearly invisible due to the flickering). I have seen other games done in VB using DDraw that do not suffer from this problem so that naturally leads me to believe I have done something wrong. Does anyone know of a reason for a flickering mouse pointer? Any help is appreciated?

Thanks,
Rippin

You should make your own cursor and hide the windows cursor (use ShowCursor() API). Check my DDraw demo if you need more info ;).