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how can i hide the mouse cursor?

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First post, by dj_anubis

Posted on 2009-02-25, 12:26

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hello, its my first thread here and i hope you can help me,

I made a batch file which runs a game through dosbox it looks like this

dosbox c:\games\prage\rage.bat -fullscreen -conf "c:\games\dosbox\prage.conf" -exit

but every time i runs the game, i see the mouse cursor on the screen, i read the README.TXT and saw there is an option to hide it by using: CTRL+F10 which makes capture\free mouse. and it works

BUT! i want to make it through the bat file, so i want have to press CONTROL+F10, i tried to change the config file with: autolock=true\false, but it didn`t work

how can i hide the mouse cursor without pressinf CTRL+F10?????

Reply 1 of 6, by wd

Posted on 2009-02-25, 12:59

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OS? dosbox version?

Reply 2 of 6, by dj_anubis

Posted on 2009-02-25, 13:29

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i dont know i have windows XP and downloaded dosbox 0.72 (ithink its not OS)

Reply 3 of 6, by wd

Posted on 2009-02-25, 14:38

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Strange, think the cursor should automatically be hidden when going
fullscreen and the mouse is not in use. Does the same thing happen if
you start dosbox normally and then use alt-enter for fullscreen?
(NO ctrl-f10 this time!).

Reply 4 of 6, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2009-02-25, 14:52

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Try a video driver update.

1+1=10

Reply 5 of 6, by dj_anubis

Posted on 2009-02-25, 16:55

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if i am running it normally without full screen at start, and press ALT+ENTER it works without showing me the cursor,

If i am running it with -fullscreen it show the cursor 🙁
also if i am using the -conf without -fullscreen i still see the cursor, how can i hide it???????????

NOTICE THIS!!!
my config file has this line:
aspect=true

IF I AM RUNNING IT WITH :aspect=false THE MOUSE IS HIDDEN!!!
BUT I HATE TO PLAY WITH WITH THIS 2 BLACK LINES SO I USE aspect=true, I think this cause the problem

So now the question is how can i run with aspect=true and hidding the mouse cursor???

Reply 6 of 6, by wd

Posted on 2009-02-25, 18:08

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Obviously you can't at the moment. Try hal's suggestion, especially if the
console window tells you so.
Other than that the next dosbox version might or might not fix that.

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