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my current project is the development of a 3D game engine.
For this reason I use an java.awt.window as parent for an OpenGL
Rendering Context and switch to fullscreen using an own native
implementation. (still using jdk 1.3.1)
The only thing I cannot control is the visibility of the mouse
cursor shape. I really need to hide the system cursor and since
java doesn't provide any support for this issue I tried to replace
the system cursor shapes for cross, arrow and wait by an empty cursor.
This really makes the cursor invisible but when I move the cursor
over the GLCanvas the restoring of the underground still irritates
the animated GLCanvas. Finally I created a more complex native solution.
I opened a native Window, and transfered the handle and device context
to java. To have Events in Java I use a Thread that calls native
peekMessage and when I translate and dispatch the messages for the
native Window I also callback to the java class and fire events.
Ok, it works but I guess it is the most hard way to go and I still
haven't all possible events done yet. As I looked to the jdk 1.3.1
sources I found the C++ file "awt_Component.cpp". If I would call
ShowCursor(false) right after the createWindow(..) command I could open
a Window without a visible cursor. Since I don't create any other
windows, buttons or frames in my game this solution would be very fine.
It seems that 'ShowCursor(boolean visible)' can only be called from this
part of code and in the Windows API there is no command to hide the
cursor for a window with a given window handle or device context.
The problem to me is, that I use the Borland C++ Builder instead of
MS Visual Studio. Also the MKS Toolkit is not available to me, so would
it be possible to send the modified "awt_Component.cpp" and get the
compiled "awt.dll" ??
Maybe some of you nice guys at Sun have already an well prepared
environment to easily recompile this file.
Don't you think a method to hide the cursor would be useful especially
for game development ?
If you cannot help me with the compilation of the requested file
could you please please please forward this mail to an appropriate person.
I'd really appreciate to hear from you !!