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Title: Custom cursor
Post by: slycrel on December 04, 2003, 01:06:45 am

Hey guys.

  I'm waiting on the mail for most of the rest of my control panel controls to arrive, so I've decided to keep myself busy.  =)  Here are some custom cursors that I made up.  They work for win98, dunno about XP.  It was prety fun to do actually.  I'm the most proud of the busy cursor...  heh.  I'm thinking of making a pong set and a pac-man set.  Is there any interest out there for this kind of thing?  Any other games that would be simple, fairly well known, and interesting to a number of people that I might be able to do some more as?  No promises, but I'd like to have some options and...  well, it was kinda fun.  ;D

  Rename the attachment to .zip

Title: Re:Custom cursor
Post by: slycrel on December 04, 2003, 01:08:58 am

Hey mods, I realize (after I posted this) that putting the zip file up with changed extension might be against the rules.  Correct me if so.  Thanks.  ;)

Title: Re:Custom cursor
Post by: Spaced Invader on December 04, 2003, 09:21:59 am

Cool cursors...they work fine with XP btw.   8)

Title: Re:Custom cursor
Post by: saint on December 04, 2003, 09:47:35 am

No worries, thanks for sharing! :)

--- saint

Quote from: slycrel on December 04, 2003, 01:08:58 am

Hey mods, I realize (after I posted this) that putting the zip file up with changed extension might be against the rules.  Correct me if so.  Thanks.  ;)

Title: Re:Custom cursor
Post by: Howard_Casto on December 04, 2003, 05:06:36 pm

I hate to critique your work, but these cursors aren't exactly functional.  The pointer cursor needs to be, well pointer shaped so you know what you are clicking on.  

I think they are a good start but they need more work.  :)

(For anyone who's wondering, before I got into this hobby I made custom 9X themes for approx 3 years, so I'm familair with this sort of thing.)

Title: Re:Custom cursor
Post by: slycrel on December 04, 2003, 06:05:01 pm

  Actually, I made it that way on purpose.  This way I don't have to "hide" the cursor on startup of windows for my MAME machine -- I just get the animated space invader for that portion then go into mamewah.  I should have mentioned that, I guess I assumed they wouldn't be used for general windows purposes.  :)

  I can update the set to include icons with pointers though, no problem.  I'll do that tonight.

  Thanks for the feedback!

  edit:

  Oh yeah...  The mouse pointer for the current set is in the upper left corner, approximately where you'd expect it to be for a standard pointer.  It's not right at the edge of the left space invader antenna, but it's just off the base there.  For the half-busy wait it is the same.

Title: Re:Custom cursor
Post by: slycrel on December 04, 2003, 11:04:58 pm

  Okay, here are some mouse pointers to go with the regular and animated cursor.  Feel free to give me feedback on if these work or if I should do something different.  =)

  Same as before...  rename the .txt to .zip