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Custom Mouse Cursor Image

by Chok Wei Tat · in Torque Game Builder · 10/13/2006 (4:27 am) · 6 replies

Hi, i hv go through the mole game example, i found that the hammer is actually follow the cursor to get the effect that we are setting the cursotr to hammer.

i wonder is there a way in tgb to set the mouse cursor to an image with jz one simple command like

%mouseObj = setMouseCursor(imageName, frameIndex);

Thanks
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Torque Owner Michael S
#1
10/13/2006 (4:43 pm)
I'm afraid no
or maybe u just mount your cursor image to the your cursor position
but i don't have tried it yet.
i found that it's more easier to do that in mole tutorial.
i have a principe
"i don't care whatever method i use long or short . the most important my program is finished"
hehehehhehehehe

Torque Owner Owen Ortmayer
#2
10/13/2006 (4:57 pm)
See games/common/gui/cursors.cs to see how to create a new cursor image.

Then use Canvas.setCursor( myCursorName ) .

Torque Owner Chok Wei Tat
#3
10/13/2006 (7:05 pm)
Thanks

It worked!!

function startGame(%level)
{
Canvas.setContent(mainMenuGuid);
initCursor();
moveMap.push();

if( isFile( %level ) || isFile( %level @ ".dso")) {
echo (%level);
sceneWindow2D.loadLevel(%level);
}
}

function initCursor() {
new GuiCursor(gameCursor)
{
hotSpot = "1 1";
renderOffset = "0 0";
bitmapName = "~/data/images/buttonBack_h.png";
};

Canvas.setCursor(gameCursor);
}

Torque Owner Chok Wei Tat
#4
10/13/2006 (7:40 pm)
But i think i encounter prob here

How to make the initCursor, the "gameCursor" to use one of the frame of the image?
For example, i jz want to display frame 3 as mouse cursor and not the whole image.

Dono wht the properties should put in the

new GuiCursor(gameCursor)
{
hotSpot = "1 1";
renderOffset = "0 0";
// bitmapName = "~/data/images/buttonBack_h.png";
??? ... ???
/* THIS ONE CRASH TGB
imageMap = "b2ImageMap";
frame = "0";
*/
};


Thanks

Torque Owner JD Porter
#5
10/14/2006 (4:02 pm)
I don't think mouse cursors act on cells like images do. When I ran into this problem, I wound up chopping up my tiled image into 6 different pngs, one for each cell in the image.

Torque Owner Chok Wei Tat
#6
10/15/2006 (5:24 am)
I found my way, i use an transparent t2dSprite object (setVisible(0))

then use this func

function sceneWindow2D::onMouseMove(%this, %mod, %worldPosition) {
myhand.setPosition(%worldPosition);
}


then i create the illusion for mouse cursor by

canvas.hidecursor();
myhand.setvisible(1);

Yeo~la, it works,

and i dont hv to create hundreds of image for setting "bitmapName" for GuiCursor