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Possible to disable the mouse?

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First post, by Sheriff Hobbes

Posted on 2009-04-27, 12:16

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Hi guys,

in DOSBox, is it possible to disable the mouse?
Over the weekend I installed several jump & run games. None of them supports the mouse (and in fact it would be pointless for playing), but I always see a useless mouse pointer in the game. I haven't seen any comments about this in the Readme or the config file, but maybe there a hidden option?

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Reply 1 of 10, by wd

Posted on 2009-04-27, 12:19

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What game?

Reply 2 of 10, by MiniMax

Posted on 2009-04-27, 15:35

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Re: Mouse problem

Reply 3 of 10, by Sheriff Hobbes

Posted on 2009-04-27, 19:29

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Thanks for the link, but mouseoff.com doesn't work. Using version 0.72 under XP.
Examples of games are Commander Keen, Duke Nukem 2, Monster Bash.
It's actually a problem of DOSBox not capturing the mouse cursor when you click inside the DOSBox window. I believe this is only a problem with games not supporting the mouse, but not with all of them, e.g. the cursor disappears in Duke Nukem.

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Reply 4 of 10, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2009-04-27, 19:31

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Uhm, just move the pointer away from the window? Or is this in fullscreen?

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Reply 5 of 10, by DosFreak

Posted on 2009-04-27, 19:36

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or press the key combination to capture the mouse.
Try the latest CVS build of DOSBox.

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Reply 6 of 10, by Sheriff Hobbes

Posted on 2009-04-27, 20:24

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DOSFreak is right. Ctrl+F10 does the trick. This means that the "auto lock" function does not work in these games. No big deal though, but you can add it to the bugs list. 😉

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Reply 7 of 10, by wd

Posted on 2009-04-27, 20:47

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Where's the bug? In windowed mode there's no reason to disable the mouse
cursor, assuming you're not too stupid to move the mouse out of the window
yourself if the sheer cursor annoys you.

Reply 8 of 10, by Sheriff Hobbes

Posted on 2009-04-28, 07:08

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I wasn't talking about windowed mode.

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Reply 9 of 10, by MiniMax

Posted on 2009-04-28, 07:47

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Sheriff Hobbes wrote:
It's actually a problem of DOSBox not capturing the mouse cursor when you click inside the DOSBox window.

Sheriff Hobbes wrote:
I wasn't talking about windowed mode.

Sorry - our mistake.

Reply 10 of 10, by wd

Posted on 2009-04-28, 09:21

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If the cursor is visible in fullscreen (as MiniMax pointed out you gave wrong
information about this) then your graphics card drivers are crap, this is
NOT a dosbox problem.

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