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  1. Dec 12th, 2001, 08:39 PM #1
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    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!

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  2. Dec 12th, 2001, 09:08 PM #2
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    Works just fine for me. Might want to change the ShowCursor 0 to ShowCursor False. Dunno if that will fix it..

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  3. Dec 12th, 2001, 09:41 PM #3
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    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 )
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  4. Dec 13th, 2001, 03:30 AM #4
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    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
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  6. Dec 13th, 2001, 07:42 AM #5
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    Thanks for the responses!

    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!
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    Maybe it's just one of those weird VB things. I wouldn't be surprised if it was VB who puts the cursor back
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    HAHA, Just answered my own question.

    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
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  9. Dec 13th, 2001, 08:06 AM #8
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    We're so helpful around here ;)

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