Good morning,
I have a program that runs on 4 touchscreen kiosks, The software for the monitor has a
option to turn off the cursor. I don't use cursor 200 in my program at all. I use
TouchWare Drivers and Utilities, its supports Windows, MS-Dos, OS/2 and Macintosh. I
find it on the internet. If you need help e-mail me here or call.
Fred Westermeyer
Slot Graphics
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1-800-WIN-2-WIN ext.1507
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Hi gang,
Our Technical Manager keeps bugging me with a question, so I thought I'd bug
you guys in turn.
Most of our work here is with assorted touchscreen kiosks and assorted
projections for Museums, so we use "cursor 200" to hide the cursor. If
director goes to another movie, the cursor appears again, so we use cursor
200 on the prepareMovie of each. So far, so good.
The trouble is, that some museum curators have complained about the brief
appearance of the cursor between movies, (after it leaves the first movie
and before the cursor is disappeared by the next prepareMovie) so I'm
supposed to make sure now that the offending cursor is truly dead.
Setting the cursor in windows to a blank or a small dot is not an option -
we tried that once before, and it was hell to do anything in windows (and 5
times as bad to talk a computer illiterate curator through it on the
phone... can you imagine?)
Some ways I can think of, include:
* Playing all the movies as MIAWS (I'm a bit worried about how stable that
might be)
* Importing or linking them to a main movie
* Possibly have an object with cursor 200 on stepMovie (I don't know if that
would work any better than a prepareMovie)
* Make the hourglass into a blank
* Use an Xtra, if one exists (I know you can use DirectOS or Buddy API to
control the cursor, but can you permanently hide it with one of them, or
another one. Got DirectOS, don't have Buddy, but can probably buy if really
necessary)
But I don't know if any of those solutions are any good, or if there's a
better way of doing it.
The best thing for me would be if I could run the movies the usual way (ie,
unconnected to each other) and just have something that kills the cursor
completely and restores it when quitting the projector. Knowing the
designers here, anything even remotely complicated would be asking for
trouble...
Has anyone come across that problem before, and/or know of the best
solution?
Karina Steffens,
Multimedia Designer/Programmer
Martello Media Ltd.
4 Islington Avenue
Sandycove
Co. Dublin
Tel: +353 1 2844668
Fax: +353 1 2803195
http://www.martellomm.ie
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