CEGUI (Crazy Eddie's GUI) Forums

first, I tried to search +ogre +tutorial through the forums here, hoping to find some ogre specific tutorials to show me what I might be missing, but ogre search term is ignored because its very common?

I am using Ogre 1.7 from SVN, Cegui 0.7 branch from SVN.

I am at tutorial 3 where you finally get to see something on the screen(mouse pointer): http://www.cegui.org.uk/docs/current/da ... orial.html

My application did not have a cursor to begin with, just the empty window, and after following these tutorials, I am not getting any errors or crashes, but I still don't have a cursor. I have went over the Beginner's Tutorials in the Developer Documentation a few times and I can't figure out what I am missing.

it says in tutorial 2 that if your using Ogre then you want to use ogre's resource manager for resource locations, and also set the default resource groups to be used:



Then in tutorial 3, you load the scheme and set a mouse cursor:


Cegui.log:

after reading through some posts I found in somebody elses code snippet this:

so instead of just:


I have:


I figured the defaultmousecursor was the one I needed since I have not added any Cegui UI elements to the screen yet, like buttons, etc.

so now when i start up the app I have a cursor in the top left corner... im guess that all I need to do now is update the cursors position with a Mousemove() type of function, so I am off to do more researchin

im guess that all I need to do now is update the cursors position with a Mousemove() type of function

Direct your eyes to the fifth tutorial here: http://www.cegui.org.uk/docs/current/in ... orial.html It's a little less specific than some of the others due to the highly open way this can be done (I think in the future we might get some api and engine specific tutorials that go from zero to hero for each system). Anyway usually waht you'' end up with for Ogre is a class derived from Ogre::FrameListener, OIS::MouseListener and OIS::KeyListener, you register an instance of that class with Ogre and OIS and in the functions of that class you'll basically forward the notifications to CEGUI via the injection interface.

One note of as regards to the mouse not showing initially; this is just how CEGUI has always been, and in actual fact once you start injecting movements, the mouse will show - i.e. no need for the separate MouseCursor::setImage call - though setting it explicitly at initialisation is fine if you want to carry on with that.

HTH

CE.

ahh, thanks CE.

in my input.cpp I used:



I now have a cursor on the screen and it tracks my mouse movement now to maybe make a menu that has exit game as an option. and then I will probably call it good for the overall beginning... and maybe extend it farther if anyone has any feature requests

CrazyEddie wrote:One note of as regards to the mouse not showing initially; this is just how CEGUI has always been, and in actual fact once you start injecting movements, the mouse will show - i.e. no need for the separate MouseCursor::setImage call - though setting it explicitly at initialisation is fine if you want to carry on with that.

My mouse movement works great, I am now using(input.cpp):


I tried commenting out that line like you mentioned:


but if I comment out that line I get no cursor, so I must have structured my application in a way that requires me to have the separate MouseCursor::setImage call to set it explicitly at initialisation, otherwise I get no cursor even after moving the mouse around a bunch, then I uncomment it, and cursor is back.

Oh right. Sounds like maybe you don't have a full-screen root window then. IIRC that will cause the behaviour you're seeing without the explicit setImage call

CE.

ahhh yep. I am in Windowed mode. Thanks again for all the help, you rock!