RE: [Boson-devel] Cursor

[Benjamin A. <ben...@gm...>]

Hey Andi!

The cursors are nowhere near where I'd like them to be, in other words:
they're butt-ugly. Of course I could make a white border around them,
but they wouldn't be more beautiful then ;)

I'll try to create some cursors for testing for you. You only need those
2, move and attack?

I know X can't do color cursors, but I've heard that you can use Qt to
make a pixmap follow the mouse cursor. Is that true, would that be
feasible? If yes, how about transparency? Or is X maybe able to use
color cursors due to Xrender?

The fog of war: In most games of this kind that I know, different units
can look different distances. That means it would be difficult to use
bitmap masks (every units would need a fow-mask, right?). So we either
agree that units can all look the same distance (bad) or create a pixmap
for every unit (bad) or specify the viewing range in a units description
file, but you'd have to do the fow-mask in code. Is that possible?

	ben

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bos...@li... [mailto:boson-devel-
> ad...@li...] On Behalf Of Andreas Beckermann
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 6:50 PM
> To: Boson Development List
> Subject: [Boson-devel] Cursor
> 
> I guess this is mostly for our artist team (hi Ben ;-))
> We have two cursors in themes/ui/standard/cursors, one for moving and
one
> for
> attacking.
> My problem is that both are black which is quite unhandy if you also
have
> black fog of war...
> In other words: I cannot see where I click if I want to go to an
> undiscovered
> section of the map.
> 
> Is it possible to put a white frame around the cursors? That's how the
> default
> KDE (QT? X?) cursor looks like.
> 
> CU
> Andi
> 
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