Screen saver and mouse pointer, could be a bug?

[Stormrider]

I run MaLa at 321x240 full screen in my ArcadeVGA. If you move the mouse you cannot see the pointer on screen. However, if you let the Mala screensaver run, and then go back to the game list, if you move the mouse you cannot see it, but if you open the info window, or the exit dialogue, for instance, and you move the mouse, you can see the pointer on screen, not only in the area of these screens but on all the screen. When these windows are closed, you don't see the mouse pointer. I've tried this is another computer with a Geforce, running Mala with the changeresolution option set to 0, so it appears in a little part of the left-top corner of the screen, and this behaviour doesn't take place. Maybe the fact that I run Mala with userinit in the other, so it loads before explorer.exe may be relevant as regards this issue?

[loadman]

Is it causing an issue?

[Stormrider]

No really. It's just that sometimes I see the cursor, which is annoying. It's strange but happens only sometimes, and always after the screensaver has been active. This can be easily fixed with a transparent cursor, although that would make using windows a little more difficult.

[loadman]

I will have to check this

[Stormrider]

I've found a solution. Now my Windows pointers are transparent. When MaLa exits and explorer.exe is run, a cmd file is called by a shortcut in the start folder. This file copies visible pointers over the invisible pointers. Then a little .exe file which I have compiled using autoit (a tool for scripting, macros, etc), opens the mouse properties in the cursors section (control main.cpl,@0,1) and presses enter. So, cursors are refreshed and you have visible icons for use with Windows. Finally, the cmd file copies again the invisible cursors over the visible cursors, so that when the system is restarted, you have again invisible pointers for the boot process and for MaLa. A little farfetched, but it works faultlessly.

[loadman]