Re: cursor visibility problem

[Alexandre Julliard]

Ove Kaaven  writes:
> In Alexandre's new windowing architecture, we have in
> dlls/x11drv/window.c, line 119, this:
>     attr->cursor = X11DRV_GetCursor( display, GlobalLock16(GetCursor()) );
>
> Problem: what if ShowCursor(FALSE) is called to hide the cursor *before*
> the window was created? Yup, GetCursor still returns the current (arrow)
> cursor, so the new window gets associated with a visible cursor, though
> the app would expect the cursor to remain hidden.

Yes, cursor handling has some problems right now. It also needs to be
a lot more clever about setting the cursor on child windows, and not
walk the full list of top-level windows on every SetCursor. It will be
fixed eventually, but it's not my top priority right now.