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New Big Blue frontend released
bulbousbeard:
Big Blue now automatically hides Windows's cursors and restores them after you close the frontend. This means that you will no longer see the Windows hourglass/loading cursor when you launch a game, and you don't have to permanently change your cursor files in Windows's mouse settings.
https://sites.google.com/site/bigbluefrontend/
Disclaimer: you don't want to screw around with this. It will actually hide your mouse cursor in every program in Windows until it exits. Big Blue is meant to be run on an arcade cabinet PC--not your standard desktop PC.
bulbousbeard:
I put in a new experimental feature to override the behavior of the Escape key so that it kills the program Big Blue starts.
This means that you can exit any ---smurfy--- emulator from Big Blue even if it's one of those butt logs like Nebula M2 that doesn't actually quit the program when you press Escape.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wioush0snr60xwm/BigBlueFrontend-12242014.zip
Malenko:
--- Quote from: bulbousbeard on December 23, 2014, 01:10:13 am ---Disclaimer: you don't want to screw around with this. It will actually hide your mouse cursor in every program in Windows until it exits. Big Blue is meant to be run on an arcade cabinet PC--not your standard desktop PC.
--- End quote ---
Unless you have the option to disable that, you're going to alienate a good portion of whatever base you have/had.
bulbousbeard:
Why? The cursor's restored when you quit the program.
Malenko:
While I do have a MAME cab, I also play it on my desktop. Sometimes I alt+tab away for stuff. I think hiding the mouse is a great idea, especially for MAME cabs, but the option to not hide it would be beneficial to those not on a cab that want to use your front end.
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