hide mouse cursor

[Tanja]

can i hide the mouse cursor while the game is running?

[bluemonkmn]

If you have a program that can create a mouse cursor file, you could create an invisible cursor and load it after InitializeComponent is called with a line like this:
Cursor = new Cursor("empty.cur");

[Tanja]

this works only in the game window, right? if the player moves the cursor out of the window is there the normal cursor?

[bluemonkmn]

Yes

[durnurd]

Would the Cursor.Hide() method be a possible option here?  It is full-screen, but couldn't a few events just hide it on mouse enter and show it on mouse exit?

[bluemonkmn]

Actually Cursor.Hide does exactly what I was thinking my solution would do, I just didn't know about Cursor.Hide.  That's a much easier solution.  Use Cursor.Hide() instead.

[Tanja]

eh.... i don't know how to do this, there are no rules for that (hint, hint, as other users would say  :laugh:)

[durnurd]

Create a rule that runs once (During an initialization phase)
do:
System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Hide
Speaking of which...
BlueMonk:  Maybe there should be a simple way to define rules that always run exactly once (per game/per level/per sprite/whatever).  Rather than surrounding it in an if (initialized) block in the main code, have a separate area for rules that run during the constructor, or something?  It's a very common use case, and while there is already a way to do it, it could be simpler and more efficient.