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MBK
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20th April, 2010 at 07:55:03 -
... to an active object's positon. How do I set the Mouse Arrow to an object? ... it's not what you think, I mean the opposite.
You see, it's possible to set an active to the mouse arrow and have it follow the mouse, BUT what I could make use of currently, if it's possible, is to set the Mouse Arrow to follow the active's position and I have no idea how to do that.
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20th April, 2010 at 08:51:33 -
I think the Mouse object can do what you're looking for.
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Assault Andy
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20th April, 2010 at 14:39:22 -
The Mouse Object will do it, but if I recall correctly it uses the position of the mouse cursor relative to your screen, not to your app. So you'll need to also use the Window Control object to get the window's current position.
eg.
Always > Set Actual Mouse X to WinXPos( "Window Control" )+X( "Active" )
edit: You will probably notice a small 'offset' due to having thick window edges on Vista/Windows 7. You might need to add another 5 pixels to taste.
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MBK
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20th April, 2010 at 20:52:22 -
THANK YOU GUYS !!!
I sincerely, couldn't have done it without you guys or the mouse object. .... that said, there's still a PRoBLem 
@Andy: thank you, that works great, BUT ... it brings up another problem ... IF you resize the game window during runtime, the mouse arrow no longer is set to the correct position, it still follows, just at the wrong place. ... here's what I did:
I --> toggle internal flag 9
Flag 9 is on --> Set Actual Mouse X to Window X position + X(Active) + 5
--> Set Actual Mouse Y to Window Y position + Y(Active) + 50
That causes things to work perfect until I realised that when I drag the edge of the window to a different size, the mouse arrow no longer lines up with the active in the correct position, instead it's following outside the game window, heh.
So I tried doing it without the window control object, which went like this:
Flag 9 is on --> Set Actual Mouse X to X(Active) + 209
--> Set Actual Mouse Y to Y(Active) + 90
But leaving out the window control does the same thing, works perfect until the window size is dragged to a different size at runtime.
Is there a way to prevent this from happening? (preferably without locking the window so its size can't be changed during runtime)
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MBK
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22nd April, 2010 at 01:05:48 -
Ok, it turns out that when I installed that Mouse extension, it put an example file on my start menu (i didn't realise), and guess what... there's a step in the example that prevents the exact problem in the post above from ever happening.
So now both problems i mentioned in this thread are fixed! Thanks guys, ... Now I have to get back to finding a nice smooth drawing method so all those fancy things I did for the graphics editor don't go to waste.
Anyone know of a good smooth drawing coding? I'll start a thread for it.
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