Hide mouse when a game loads?

[big10p]

Anyone managed to do this in windows 7 when launching a MAME game from MaLa? I tried using nomousy.exe but it hangs when run from a batch file, for some reason.

Cheers.

[BorgDog]

I don't see my mouse cursor in Mala nor when I launch a game in either Windows 7 or 8, except when I right-click to get the Mala config menu.  Are you using yours for scrolling or selecting in Mala?

[big10p]

No, I'm not using the mouse to control MaLa, other than when right clicking to access configuration.

I get a second or so of the windows spinning blue circle cursor each time I launch a game. Strange that you're not getting this and I am. 

I think I'm using the latest beta version of MaLa. Are you using one of the stable releases?

[behrmr]

What you're seeing is the busy animation.  You can change the "working in background" and "busy" animations to the clear icon.

http://www.jholjhaal.com/hide-mouse-cursor-on-windows-with-mouse-pointer-scheme/

[big10p]

That looks like a nifty solution. I'll give it a try, thanks. 

[BadMouth]

It shouldn't be necessary with MAME, but since nomousey hanging came up, the solution is to add "start " (including the space) before nomousey.exe
start nomousy.exe /hide

drventure taught me that. 

I use it for Demul emulator.

[BorgDog]

I have both latest stable and beta running on different machines. 

Maybe because I have "Use fullscreen starting picture instead of starting window" checked under Options GUI Game Start/Quit?

Looks like you may be on to an alternate solution.

[big10p]

behrmr's tip worked... sorta. I still get a quick flash of the regular mouse pointer on game startup. I use a fullscreen starting image, BTW.

Thanks for the tip on starting nomousy.exe, BadMouth.