hum little probleme about cursor

[TheKGBspy]

yo all im new in this forum but not new to vb . im making a game with one of my friend called Zasz on this forum. The gam ereally look good . its a real time strategie Commandos style. for now you can control 6 elite soldier: make them crawl, fire,...
anyway there my problem:

i try to put animated cursor (.ani) to my game and that dont seem to work. vb 5 dont want to read them. (i have vb 6 at home and vb5 at school and my program is my school project. im so advanced in informatic, the teacher make me make what i want so im making a game).

and also im trying to put red cursor (.cur) in my prog but they appear in black!!

can sombody help me plz ?

[Sastraxi]

You can control the animation yourself. Look around here (search vb-world above @ the VB Forums) for an example of Bitblt and GetCursorPos. What you can do is use Bitblt to Blit a transparent (non-square) cursor where the mouse is. You would also have to hide the original mouse cursor with the showcursor API call. I don't think VB supports .ANI cursors on it's own, but you could store them in a series of frames and work with them that way. I think there may be another way, too...

I'll see what I can do for you in the meantime.

[Zaei]

As Sas said, .ani cursors are not supported in VB. You can create a set of regular .cur cursors, and loop through them to simulate the animation, or use BitBlt as Sas mentioned.

Z.

[Sastraxi]

Plus it would be easier to solve if your application was fullscreen or better yet DirectX.

[rjlohan]

Originally posted by TheKGBspy
yo all im new in this forum but not new to vb . im making a game with one of my friend called Zasz on this forum. The gam ereally look good . its a real time strategie Commandos style. for now you can control 6 elite soldier: make them crawl, fire,...
anyway there my problem:

i try to put animated cursor (.ani) to my game and that dont seem to work. vb 5 dont want to read them. (i have vb 6 at home and vb5 at school and my program is my school project. im so advanced in informatic, the teacher make me make what i want so im making a game).

and also im trying to put red cursor (.cur) in my prog but they appear in black!!

can sombody help me plz ?

Guess I should read posts b4 I post my own... I just posted the 'Why is it black??!!??' question...

So, why do cursors come in B&W only, no colours??

[TheKGBspy]

ok tanx. for the picture i already tought about it but it will be very tricky for my program. i use many picture box so if i put a image on my form and i want to go in the picture box th epicture will be under the picture box! anyway ill post some picture of my program tommorow.

[ZaSz]

Originally posted by Sastraxi
You can control the animation yourself. Look around here (search vb-world above @ the VB Forums) for an example of Bitblt and GetCursorPos. What you can do is use Bitblt to Blit a transparent (non-square) cursor where the mouse is. You would also have to hide the original mouse cursor with the showcursor API call. I don't think VB supports .ANI cursors on it's own, but you could store them in a series of frames and work with them that way. I think there may be another way, too...

I'll see what I can do for you in the meantime.

"Series of frames"

Can someone explain a code to put picture in a single file?
bcuz we have a lot of .jpg and would like to put them in the same file. thanks

ZaSz

[Zaei]

if all of the images are the same size, you can assign each picture an ID number (in your program), and get the picture using that:

Cosnt Size as Long = 256
Const NumAcross as Long = 4

Private Sub GetPic(ID As Long)
   Dim PX as Long
   Dim PY as Long
   PX = ID mod NumAcross * Size
   PY = ID \ NumAcross *Size

   '....
End Sub

Should work fine. If the images are different sizes, you can create a file that has the ID, then an X, Y, SizeX, and SizeY, to get the info about the image.

Z.

[edit]
Opps, used the C++ mod operator instead of the VB one. Fixed.