Help with cursor animation

[MrHat]

I am making a simple reflex testing program and i would like to make my cursor disappear and in its place a cross hair appear. I know how to make the cursor dissapear but i dont know how to put a cursor in its place. I don't know if this affects anything but i am using an earlier version of Turing (3.1.1a) If you have any ideas at all they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[[Gandalf]]

You know how to make the 'arrow' cursor disappear? From Turing? I didn't know that was possible, how did you do it?

To put something in it's place, why not draw something at mouse.x, mouse.y?

This reminds me of a target practice program I made, I may post it if I can find it

[Cervantes]

Check out Mouse.Where. There's the help file, or there's the compsci.ca tutorial, found via the Turing Walkthrough, found in the Turing tutorials section.

Don't forget to put a delay in your loop, or things will appear very slow. Sort of contradictory, eh?

[MrHat]

lmao just yesterday i looked at the mousewhere code and never thought of it that way. BTW i believe the code for getting rid of a cursor, at least in 3.1.1a is
setscreen("nocursor")

or at least something similar to that

[Cervantes]

In the newer versions of Turing, setscreen ("nocursor") gets rid of the blinking cursor present in things like get. Mind you, in previous versions you could do things like fullscreen (or so I hear), that you can't do in the newer versions.

[MysticVegeta]

seriously? we could do fullscreen in old versions? i wonder why they removed it then..

[blaster009]

Probably because older versions were DOS-based.

[beard0]

blaster009 wrote:

Probably because older versions were DOS-based.

Exactly. Full screen was all you could do.

[[Gandalf]]

beard0 wrote:

blaster009 wrote:

Probably because older versions were DOS-based.

Exactly. Full screen was all you could do.

Nope. (Well, as long as no graphics were involved).

[beard0]

Errr.... So yeah, you can run it in a DOS window under windows, but that's really just a DOS emulation. To note: If you change the background coulour of your Command Prompt window, running your program causes a large section (maxcol X maxrow) to go black. It is a fullscreen program, being run in an emulation window.

[RedRogueXIII]

code:

var mx,my,mb:int drawfillbox(0,0,maxx,maxy,black) loop mousewhere(mx,my,mb) drawfillbox(0,my+1,mx-1,maxy,black) drawfillbox(0,0,mx-1,my-1,black) drawfillbox(mx+1,my+1,maxx,maxy,black) drawfillbox(mx+1,0,maxx,my-1,black) drawline(mx-30,my,mx-20,my,black) drawline(mx+20,my,mx+30,my,black) drawline(mx,my+30,mx,my+20,black) drawline(mx,my-20,mx,my-30,black) drawline(mx,my-20,mx,my+20,green) drawline(mx-20,my,mx+20,my,green) drawfilloval(mx,my,5,5,black) end loop

this should work, except you'd have to change how the background refreshs itself. ....

[Cervantes]

Why so much drawing? Methinks you should check out View.Update.

code:

setscreen ("offscreenonly") colourback (black) var mx, my, mb : int loop     mousewhere (mx, my, mb)     cls     drawline (mx + 5, my, mx + 20, my, green)     drawline (mx - 5, my, mx - 20, my, green)     drawline (mx, my + 5, mx, my + 20, green)     drawline (mx, my - 5, mx, my - 20, green)     View.Update     delay (10)     end loop

[Albrecd]

How did you make the mouse dissapear?

[do_pete]

he didn't

[The_Triangle]

do_pete wrote:

he didn't

lol. anyone know how to make the dissapear?