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Hello,

I used the dbChangeMouse function in DBP to switch between cursors, and would like to do the same now with DarkSDK. I saw that the functin is in the header file of Input, but I assume it doesn't do much, since I don't see a way to specify the cursors!

How can I do this in VS?

greets,
Barnski

What you have to do is create a resource that holds a cursor file that you have created. You do this in MS Visual C++ by going to the same button you would use to add a window and there should be an option to add a resource instead of a dialogue box. Click that and then give the cursor resource that you load a number that defines it. After that use the macro that you assign to the named loaded cursor and pass it to the dbChangeMouse function. Hope this helps.

I loaded the cursor resource into the VS project, but cant figure out how to assign a number to it?!

Sorry, that's not really what I meant. When you loaded the cursor file there should have been an entry that was made in one of the header files that links a variable or a number index to the cursor that was loaded. Basically what this comes down to, is C++ assigns a numeric or variable value as an index to the cursor that you loaded, you can then access the cursor by passing the reference of it to the function in SDK. If for some reason the file wasn't linked inside the main header, you can place it there yourself. I'm pretty sure that's how the function works, if not, then my appologies.

Ok I got that now; I need to make

1) Add resource...
2) Import...
3) save all files

Voila I get the resource.h file, which has a IDC_CURSOR1 defined to 101

But then the following does not show up my cursor:


I also tried all cursor values from 0 to 150, only 0 and 1 show me the standard cursors (pointer and hourglass), but 101 does not show my custom cursor...

also, in the DBP help is written:


so the function accepts obviously only values between 2 and 31!
Well I will try now to change the ID of the cursor to 2...

[some minutes later...]
it did not work; I made a new symbol, called it IDC_CURSOR_HAND, assigned value 2 to it, and changed my cursor ID to that symbol.
Saved all files, so resource.h got updated to this: (oh and I changed the next_res_id value too, but that souldn't do any harm)


then I tried to see if my cursor gets drawn, but NO it doesnt (changemouse(2))... I know the cursor loaded in DBP, so it should work!


So what am I doing wrong??

Thanx for help

barnski