Custon colored mousepointer

SDL Development
1

Hello,

I’d like to change the pointer
when that game is in a certain state, such as when a movement destination
is selected, a target is selected etc (this is for a wargame).

It would be nice to change the pointer to something else, such as a
crosshair or similar just so that the player knows what is going on.

In the doc, I just read how to create a new mouse cursor from an XPM but
with this, cursor can only be black and white, no ?!

So, does someone know the best way to create a custom colored mousepointer
???

TIA
CU–
Pascal “Toweld” Bourut
toweld at rocketmail.com
http://toweld.free.fr/towbowltactics/
Up The Irons !!!

2

simply:

use a surface which loads a bitmap. give it a color key, and accommodate the
"hotspot" somehow with a pair of x,y values. render this after everything
else has been rendered, before calling SDL_Flip or SDL_UpdateRect.>From: “Pascal Bourut” <pascal.bourut at wanadoo.fr>

Reply-To: sdl at libsdl.org
To: sdl at libsdl.org
Subject: [SDL] Custon colored mousepointer
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 18:04:46 -0000

Hello,

I’d like to change the pointer
when that game is in a certain state, such as when a movement destination
is selected, a target is selected etc (this is for a wargame).

It would be nice to change the pointer to something else, such as a
crosshair or similar just so that the player knows what is going on.

In the doc, I just read how to create a new mouse cursor from an XPM but
with this, cursor can only be black and white, no ?!

So, does someone know the best way to create a custom colored mousepointer
???

TIA
CU

–
Pascal “Toweld” Bourut
toweld at rocketmail.com
http://toweld.free.fr/towbowltactics/
Up The Irons !!!

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