wonky mouse

[loftar]

One work around is to create a hardware mouse with 100% transparency, create a mouse listener to receive position updates and then draw the pretty colored cursor manually.
It won't be quite as smooth visually as a mouse that's entirely hardware, however it'll move about with the same smoothness as a hardware mouse does.

Yeah, that's what it's doing currently, only the cursor is only being drawn at the end of each draw cycle, so that's why it follows the FPS.

Your link tipped me about the "getMaximumCursorColors" (don't you just love those AWT names...?) function, though, so I added separate modes to draw the cursor in hardware if the toolkit supports 256 colors or more. Since the toolkit on my system only supports 2 colors, I haven't been able to test it, but I hope those who are having trouble with it find their systems capable of it.

[kimya]

WTF!!!! its totally smooth now, extraordinary, amazing, perfect!! YEEEESSSSSSSS
if i knew you in rl youd get a peck THAAAANKS!

[kimya]

so, after the first euphoria:

dunno if its because of that recent change, but if i click on the "craft" button, for example, my char walks to that point, instead of crafting. i either have to hit a certain area to actually ->click<- or its random, i havent found out yet. but it makes querning wheatseads quite hard, as my char always walks away from the quern...

/edit
not only the craft button, also the others like inventory, charsheet, the "x" to close a window...

/edit #2

I guess i know whats the problem. the click point of the cursor is not the tip of the arrow, but the middle of it. like, if the cursor was a spot or a cross, it would totally make sense.

/edit #3
actually the click point is in the mittle of the arrowhead.
enough testing for now

[theTrav]

"getMaximumCursorColors" (don't you just love those AWT names...?)

I don't see anything wrong with that name... Perfectly cromulent to me

[loftar]

I guess i know whats the problem. the click point of the cursor is not the tip of the arrow, but the middle of it. like, if the cursor was a spot or a cross, it would totally make sense.

I got hold of a few different Windows computer, and it seems that the problem manifests itself on Vista and 7, but not on XP. Can this be verified to be true?

[niltrias]

I can check that on my laptop tomorrow. I normally run this on my server, hence the terrible spelling/punctuation/capitalization. I{ll let you know.

There goes another one. On a civilized keyboard, that would have been an apostrophe.

[Rift]

yeah. confirmed that my vista computer has the mouse offset a bit from teh tip [making me click those little x's with greater difficulty]

[loftar]

I think I might have figured it out, actually. I think that the cursor isn't actually wrong; rather, the entire drawing area seems to be stretched on Vista. Probably, the window is created larger than it should be, for some reason (Java does seem to have some issues with that), so that the actual window is larger than 800x600, while Haven's logical drawing area is still 800x600. Therefore, there is a discrepancy between window coordinates and logical coordinates which grows with the distance from the upper left corner of the window. It wasn't noticeable in the cursor previously, since the logically drawn cursor would still match up with the clicked coordinates.

Now to find out why the window is created with the wrong size on Vista...

[Jfloyd]

yeah. confirmed that my vista computer has the mouse offset a bit from teh tip [making me click those little x's with greater difficulty]

Yay! Now when loftar fixes it, I'll actually be able to pick up items!

[Rift]

you can now.. you just have to figure out what the offset is given how far from the corner you are... or.. just click a few times trying to click with the point to the center of the pointer.