Problems with DllCall

[gosu]

Can you tell me what´s wrong with this code? I want the cursor to hide and show up again. It just happens nothing

DllCall("User32.dll","long","ShowCursor","long",0)

Sleep(5000)

DllCall("User32.dll","long","ShowCursor","long",1)

Edited November 13, 2004 by gosu

[ezzetabi]

Wrong? nothing.

But it seems that AutoIt's dllcall ignores ShowCursor.

(I tried also... )

[Jon]

Can you tell me what´s wrong with this code? I want the cursor to hide and show up again. It just happens nothing 

The code looks ok, but some of the mouse functions don't work like you always expect (like changing the mouse cursor) so it might just not be that easy...

Google found this:

Introduction

Ever wanted to make the mouse cursor invisble? It theory it is a fairly simple thing to achieve using the ShowCursor API call. Pass True to show the cursor and False to hide the cursor. However, you might find that sometimes ShowCursor stops working. The reason for this is that the cursor's internal counter (which is the value returned by the ShowCursor function) gets out of sync. ShowCursor works by keeping an internal counter of calls to ShowCursor. Passing True increments the counter and passing False decrements the counter. The cursor is invisible when the cursor internal counter drops below 0 and is visible at all other times. Straight away you can see that calling the ShowCursor(True) twice and then calling ShowCursor(False) will not make the mouse cursor invisible. You must call ShowCursor(False) once more to do this!

Edited November 13, 2004 by Jon

[konan]

Yes I think so!

[ezzetabi]

Yeah!!

_CurVisInv(0)
MsgBox(0, 'Test time', 'Try to click OK, pal. The cursor is invisible!')
_CurVisInv(1)
MsgBox(0, 'Test time', 'Try to click OK, pal. This time it is not!')

Func _CurVisInv($bV)
   Local $cursorinternalc
   
   Select
      Case $bV = 1
         Do
            $cursorinternalc = DllCall("User32.dll", "long", "ShowCursor", "long", $bV)
            Sleep(1)
         Until $cursorinternalc[0] > 0
      Case $bV = 0
         Do
            $cursorinternalc = DllCall("User32.dll", "long", "ShowCursor", "long", $bV)
            Sleep(1)
         Until $cursorinternalc[0] < 0
      Case Else
         Return 0
   EndSelect

  ;MsgBox(0, '', $cursorinternalc[0])
   Return 1
EndFunc  ;==>_CurVisInv

Edited November 13, 2004 by ezzetabi

[gosu]

wow, this is strange. well, thanks! i was just wondering what was wrong about my code

[CyberSlug]

I believe that function only hides the cursor for the current window.... so it's not really a global setting....