Need to temporarily turn off mouse pointer

[ZiggyStardust]

I am writing a script and need to turn off the mouse pointer for the duration of the script then turn it back on when the script exits. I have looked through WinAPI and WinAPIEx and both seem to elude to doing it but I can find nothing specfic. Has anyone done this before?

[Akarillon]

Why does the mouse pointer have to vanish?

Just lock it in place at the bottom or something with _MouseTrap.

[Belini]

@ ZiggyStardust to block the mouse can use the UDF BlockInputEx made ​​by MrCreatoR:

To hide the pointer:

DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "ShowCursor", "int", False); Hide pointer
sleep(1000)
DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "ShowCursor", "int", False); Show pointer

[ZiggyStardust]

I found reference to show and hide cursor in WinAPI and WInAPIEX. I was wondering if Cursor and Pointer were the same thing. For some reason this didn't work:

DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "ShowCursor", "int", False); Hide pointer

sleep(1000)

DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "ShowCursor", "int", False); Show pointer

Neither did the ones in the WinAPI UDF. What am I doing wrong?

[Belini]

Works for me, try this other: hide pointer mouse.rar

Edited July 3, 2012 by Belini

[ZiggyStardust]

Thanks guys. Very, very helpful. Either MouseTrap or the above hide mouse pointer.rar work. The nice thing about MouseTrap is that it will work when BlockInputEx is in effect. MouseClick will not. Thanks a million!