Making change to cursor shape effective immediately

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Making change to cursor shape effective immediately

alex_sand

Hi,

I would like to change the shape of the mouse cursor depending on the state of my game. In particular, I would like a 'wait' cursor during the ennemis turn, and when this turn is finished the cursor should change immediately to another icon. So I tried using the field "Control.MouseDefaultCursorShape" of my viewport container. Problem: when I change the cursor shape with this field, it is not visible immediately. It is only visible after the player moves the mouse, which defeats the purpose of having a "wait for your turn" cursor.

Is there a way to get this effect immediately ?

PS: - running on windows 10, Godot 3.3 - I tried to generate a fake mouse event with a deferred call to "Input.ParseInputEvent" after changing the cursor. The behavior is a bit weird: the mouse is then displayed with the default cursor (the arrow), instead of using the cursor I specified. Once again the correct cursor is displayed as soon as I really move the mouse.

Calinou

I recommend temporarily hiding the mouse cursor by calling Input.set_mouse_mode(Input.MOUSE_MODE_HIDDEN) and displaying a "software" cursor using a Sprite that follows the mouse position instead. This has some latency, but it gives you much more control over the cursor's visuals.

alex_sand

Hi, thanks for this advice! Indeed that should avoid the issue.

May I ask what you mean by "temporarily"? Is it "temporarily , while the cursor is on this viewport" or "temporarily, until this part of Godot is more user friendly" (Well maybe I should say "fixed" :) here )

Calinou

@alex_sand said: Hi, thanks for this advice! Indeed that should avoid the issue.

May I ask what you mean by "temporarily"? Is it "temporarily , while the cursor is on this viewport" or "temporarily, until this part of Godot is more user friendly" (Well maybe I should say "fixed" :) here )

By "temporarily", I mean "while the cursor is on this viewport".

alex_sand

thanks!