How can I hide the mouse cursor with a release build?

Question

Please help. For some reason when we run the game from the launcher, or create a release build and run that, the mouse still shows up. We are making use of the flowgraph hide mouse node to accomplish this in the editor. For further details, the mouse shows up as a relatively large green mouse cursor and then full screen causes this to revert to the default windows mouse cursor. I haven't seen anyone else posting about this problem so hopefully I'm just missing something simple. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Accepted Answer

Hi @REDACTEDUSER

Thanks for reporting this issue. We have seen behavior like this in the past. We are in the process of implementing a new input system which should resolve this.

The workaround in the short term is to hide the mouse multiple times. The underlying implementation on Windows uses a counter so if it has been told to show twice then it needs to be told to hide twice etc.

Rob

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Thanks for the help. I removed ShowCursor(True) and that did the trick.

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If that does not work an alternative workaround is to remove the call "ShowCursor(TRUE)" in GameStartup::Run(). This appears to be what gets the counter out of sync.

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Awesome! Glad the team was able to get you what you needed.

How can I hide the mouse cursor with a release build?

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