Changing Cursor Arrow?

[Guest]

Is it possible to change the cursor so instead of an arrow, it transforms into a glowing pixie that guides you or something? Or when you click the pixie transforms into a frog while you hold the button down?

[Remm]

wow wut r u planning?
well, you can have a picture that follows around the cursor using the mouse co-ordonates (mousewhere), but as far as I know you cant change the cursor in turing itself.

[Cervantes]

Remm wrote:

but as far as I know you cant change the cursor in turing itself.

Right. The definitive answer: "No."

To do so, you'd have to access the Windows API, and that's something Turing prevents to a great extreme. Why? Think of a computer lab, where someone changes the cursor to be a single pixel, or gets rid of it entirely, for the next class to deal with. Or worse, various hacking to get more permissions than are allowed.

In short, there's a reason that Turing cannot do these things. The reason is actually quite wise. Wisdom should be heeded.

[Guest]

All Heil Cervantes! Master of Wizdom and Kindness!

[codemage]

There's nothing from stopping you from putting a picture underneath the windows cursor. It's the best solution you can pull off in Turing.

[Remm]

Thats what I said
Use mousewhere(x-coordonate,y-coordonate,click)
and for when you click you can have your changes.
if click = 1 then
*changes*

[[Gandalf]]

Remm wrote:

Thats what I said

Indeed.

This has been talked about before. I mentioned that if you really want to change the cursor you might be able to change the cursor for the program by doing some editing or resource hacking of the executable. Hacker Dan also mentioned that you could always just call another program using Sys.Exec() to do it for you. Much simpler that way.