I'm writing a game which has buttons. They need to be clicked. When the game runs, it starts up with the mouse showing as a white arrow. It needs to switch to the red arrow to be able to click buttons. It seems unreasonable to ask the player to right click to turn the arrow on, it should be there for them from the beginning so they can select from a menu. However no matter if I say mouse_mode = 1, or mouse_mode equals 2 at the beginning, in main, the mouse stays a white arrow when the program runs, unless I right click. How do I fix it to work automatically?


I'm using my registered A6 standard.

Thanks

Hi, please look at the manual.
Anyway, I will give you the code here:
Code:

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bmap arrow="arrow.tga"; // Your mouse pointer bitmap
// ...
function main()
{
mouse_map=arrow;
mouse_mode=1; // Activate the mouse
// ...
while(1)
{
mouse_pos.x=pointer.x;
mouse_pos.y=pointer.y; // Move the pointer
wait(1);
}
}

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Regards
TSGames

Hi, first I want to thank you for being the only one who answered so far.
Of course I read the manual, and looked up mouse mode.
I've tried setting it from a function, and just setting it within the main() function. There is no mention of mouse in any other line in my wdl. I set the mouse on early, but it doesn't make the mouse work. Yes, my panel buttons are good and actually trigger functions. I've even tried setting the mouse to other values like 0 or 2 to see what would happen. Its just a mystery. I guess I'll just use keypresses for results. Thanks for you help.

Anton

You could just use set_mouse(2); when you need the mouse
and set_mouse(0); when you don't need it...using this function:


Code:

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function set_mouse(_mode)   //set_mouse(2); //to enable the mouse
{                                     //set_mouse(0); //to disable the mouse 
	mouse_mode = _mode;
	mouse_range = 50000;
	mouse_map = arrow;  //change to your bmap

	while(mouse_mode > 0)
	{
		mouse_pos.x = pointer.x;
		mouse_pos.y = pointer.y;
		wait(1);
	}
	mouse_map = null;
}  

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Your code works great!

Thanks