CLI program to make mouse pointer dissapear on KS 3.X

[Gaula92]

That's it, I'm looking for a simple CLI prgram that makes the mouse pointer dissapear.
There's souch a program called KILLPTR but it only works in 1.X and 2.X KS systems.


thanks!

[daxb]

MouseBlanker (Sys:Tools/Commodities/MouseBlanker) isn`t what you want?

[Gaula92]

@daxb: sounds good, yes. I've trying to make it work for my purposes, but it shows the mouse cursor AGAIN when I move it.
It should accept some parameters (MOUSEBLANKER [CX_PRIORITY <priority>] [SECONDS <secs>] [DELTAMOUSE <pixels>] [DONOTWAIT]), but it doesn't work or I don't know how to use it the way I want:
I need the mouse to vanish FOREVER until I reboot the computer, so I try to set a high DELTAMOUSE value, but that value is ignored, or it says that number of params is incorrect.
Can you guys help with an example here?

[EDIT] I don't know if the OS 3.X version of mouseblanker accepts so many parameters, maybe they're only for the OS 4.X version.

[Matt_H]

Create a blank pointer preset using SYS:Prefs/Pointer then load it in from Shell with the USE argument when you need it.

Or with MouseBlanker I think you can set DELTAMOUSE to a very high value (greater than your screen resolution) so that it has to move an impossible number of pixels to reappear.

[Gaula92]

Matt_H: Can you please try mousebanker on WB 3.X and tell me if it accepts DELTAMOUSE parameter? I can't make it accept the parameter...

[thomas]

WB 3.x mouseblanker does not accept any argument except CX_POPUP.

The attached one could work. It has a few drawbacks, though:

- it allocates memory which is never freed, so you should call it only once
- it only works while the current window stays active. As soon as the window loses focus, the default pointer will be shown again
- it stops working when the program owning the window changes the pointer (but that's the case for the old version, too).