Good afternoon (o;
Have a touchscreen application here on Linux which runs in full screen mode.
So to disable the mouse pointer I use this snippet in the Windows Activated and Opening event:
Self.MouseCursor = System.Cursors.InvisibleCursor
But the mouse pointer is still visible on startup until I do a first touch, then it disappears…
So how would I prevent this initial display of the mouse pointer?
thanks in advance
richard
What about doing it in the app’s Opening event?
Same effect…
Mouse pointer is shown after startup until a first touch is done.
I’ve opened an issue, that is about this same thing.
Sign on here:
https://tracker.xojo.com/xojoinc/xojo/-/issues/77743
Have you test this Methods?
System.Cursors.Hide
System.Cursors.Show
Same effect…
if on Linux, install unclutter then run it somewhere on login:
unclutter -idle 0
Mouse pointer still shows when dragging…
Seems this works best for now on Raspberry Pi:
sudo sed -i -- "s/#xserver-command=X/xserver-command=X -nocursor/" /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
This may not work for wayland, a fix should be coming in the next xojo release for this.
Can’t use Wayland as then touchscreen won’t work with custom controls…
Is xojo working on a fix for this ? (is there an issue created?)
Yes…I created one: https://tracker.xojo.com/xojoinc/xojo/-/issues/77347
But last answer was to use X11 as a workaround…as my deadline for a demo project is end of this November.