Mouse cursor flickering

SDL Development
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Hi! i’m building a simple game and i’ve a little problem.

i’m using a full screen jpg background with bmp sprites and the when i run it, the mouse (that i can’t use) flicks over the screen and it’s a little bit angry.

Ferran

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Hi! i’m building a simple game and i’ve a little problem.

i’m using a full screen jpg background with bmp sprites and the when i run it, the mouse (that i can’t use) flicks over the screen and it’s a little bit angry.
This is listed in the BUGS file:
When the implementation is writing directly to video memory the mouse
cursor doesn’t work properly. Applications which do this should use
their own mouse cursor and call SDL_ShowCursor(0) to hide the system
cursor.

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment