[Bf-committers] Game engine issues...

Jasper Mine jaspermine at earthlink.net
Wed Nov 3 11:12:28 CET 2004


In most games the cursor is hidden.

On Nov 2, 2004, at 9:39 AM, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We try to get the release scheduled now, and afaik you weren't working  
> on (big) new projects in the engine? So the main issue is trying to at  
> least solve the issues in current cvs that worked in the previous one.  
> Problems that existed already - however a pity - can just be moved on  
> one release. Or just uncommit work for continuing on this later. :)
>
> Can you define what the remaining topics (showstoppers) are to solve?  
> Maybe we can even help out on things... but most important is to get  
> information that allows scheduling.
>
> On the cursor; I know it's ghost, but the call to disable the cursor  
> is somewhere in the engine or player. I tried to disable all of them,  
> with no luck. It is somewhere, can you tell where? And, btw, it's not  
> for X11 but for OSX :)
>
> -Ton-
>
>
> On 2 Nov, 2004, at 12:23, Kester Maddock wrote:
>
>> Sorry Ton,
>>
>> It's nowhere near ready for release. :-)  I know there are a couple of
>> reports, but I won't get a chance to look at them before the weekend.
>>
>> The showstoppers are the action & ipo actuators (I have a fix for the  
>> ipo) and
>> the physics has a nasty habit of stalling.
>>
>> The game engine uses ghost cursor functions for setting the  
>> visibility.  For
>> X11 it sets the window's cursor to an empty cursor.  You might be  
>> able to set
>> the cursor at the window level rather than the system level.
>>
>> Kester
>>
>> On Tuesday 02 November 2004 11:08, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
>>> HI Kester,
>>>
>>> We're heading towards cvs freeze, so it's time to know if you think  
>>> the
>>> current state of the engine is ready for release?
>>> There are quite some pending reports in the tracker on it, hope you
>>> have time to work on the showstoppers here (if any).
>>>
>>> I tried the player for OSX today, to find where the mouse cursor gets
>>> hidden in the player... this works very annoying on OSX (hides mouse
>>> for all the screen). Any hint where this is set?
>>>
>>> And, the standalone doesn't run anymore (maybe Lukep knows).
>>>
>>> -Ton-
>>>
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