Disabling the cursor?
Disabling the cursor?
I use the keyboard to play and the cursor is sort of in the way when I play. Is there any way to turn it off or at least make it so that it doesn't auto-center itself in the HUD?
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Or, if you can make one, make an invisible cursor, change to that when you're playing BZFlag, and presto, your cursor's gone. Of course, then you have to find the cursor again. Your problem
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No, the mouse still gets put to the center. I don't know why it does that, it probably should be changed , but either way. Learn to live with it or learn to play with it
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The mouse always returns to the center of the mouse box because it makes the tank stopped when you spawn, instead veering off to the direction your mouse is. Imagine that being changed. "Ummm.... I'm having this problem where the tank is going to the side even when I didn't ask it to, and steering me into bullets..." That'll be funny.
The mouse always returns to the center of the mouse box because it makes the tank stopped when you spawn, instead veering off to the direction your mouse is. Imagine that being changed. "Ummm.... I'm having this problem where the tank is going to the side even when I didn't ask it to, and steering me into bullets..." That'll be funny.
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Wouldn't it be better if the cursor doesn't center if you set controls to keyboard only?GMMan wrote:Grace F
The mouse always returns to the center of the mouse box because it makes the tank stopped when you spawn, instead veering off to the direction your mouse is. Imagine that being changed. "Ummm.... I'm having this problem where the tank is going to the side even when I didn't ask it to, and steering me into bullets..." That'll be funny.
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I relied on the mouse being at the center of the screen on lasermania, it helped me aim. Cause the *exact* point your cursor is at is the *exact* point you shoot at..Zero wrote:Thanks for all the replies. I guess I will have to live with it... and find out how to not get shot head on , which is why I'd have liked to turn it off (can't focus on the center w/o focusing on the HUD+cursor)
As for hiding it, there is probably some SDL function for it, meaning you would call something like SDL_CursorHide(true) when you exit the menu and SDL_CursorHide(false) when a menu opens. Meaning add a simple "Hide mouse" feature into the GUI
What do you mean you can't set it only to keyboard? It's right there in input settings,active input device.Grace F wrote:You can't set it to only the Keyboard, or only the mouse. For mousers, it's better the way it is. Just for the keyboarders its a nuisance. There should be a way "hide" it in BZflag. Since you use the keyboard for the most part anyway.
That's a good point. Fortunately, I'm not good enough to worry about such small details yetBinarySpike wrote:I relied on the mouse being at the center of the screen on lasermania, it helped me aim. Cause the *exact* point your cursor is at is the *exact* point you shoot at.
Ahh oops sry.Zero wrote:What do you mean you can't set it only to keyboard? It's right there in input settings,active input device.Grace F wrote:You can't set it to only the Keyboard, or only the mouse. For mousers, it's better the way it is. Just for the keyboarders its a nuisance. There should be a way "hide" it in BZflag. Since you use the keyboard for the most part anyway.
But yea anway, back when I used the keyboard, I used the curser as an aimer aswell, it does help.
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I use keyboard, mouse does not centre.
Sounds to me like you all need to get a real OS, if you are having problems with your current one.
I use Mac OS X.
Sounds to me like you all need to get a real OS, if you are having problems with your current one.
I use Mac OS X.
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What would qualify as a 'real' OS? I'm currently running Ubuntu Edgy and the last Mac I owned had System 7 installed. I don't use my computer for video and audio editing and like having plenty of choice when it comes to the look of an OS. Macs never really did it for me.CannonBallGuy wrote:I use keyboard, mouse does not centre.
Sounds to me like you all need to get a real OS, if you are having problems with your current one.
I use Mac OS X.
I do find it interesting that the mouse does not center on OSX though.
I wonder if I could run a program in the background to check and put the mouse in the bottom corner of the screen. It'd probably be considered cheating though...
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In the context of this topic, a real OS would be one that doesn't centre your mouse cursor when you don't want it to...
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Do you use keyboard only? (aka mouse turned off)CannonBallGuy wrote:I use keyboard, mouse does not centre.
Sounds to me like you all need to get a real OS, if you are having problems with your current one.
I use Mac OS X.
Cause on Mac os X the mouse does _center_. On 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4. Bzflag centers it not your OS.
First, get Suse. Second burn your System 7 alive. System 7 is so old I would give you my Mac os 9 CD just to get rid of it... (/me is kidding).Zero wrote:What would qualify as a 'real' OS? I'm currently running Ubuntu Edgy and the last Mac I owned had System 7 installed.
2.2 will have an option to hide the mouse when you spawn. If you bump the mouse it will re-appear till you spawn again, for users who use keyboard
No it wouldn't. There is no way to use it for gain. I have AutoHotKey and I can make you a script to do it easy (I run a script in the background to correct common mispellings in bzflag... like "teh").Zero wrote:I wonder if I could run a program in the background to check and put the mouse in the bottom corner of the screen. It'd probably be considered cheating though...
if you want the script just PM me.