Disappearing cursor of mouse in 3D cocpit - idea

[_YoYo_]

Hi

I created new thread as new feature: http://www.il2bugtracker.com/issues/292 . If You like it please vote it.

Reason:
Perhaps its good idea - if You dont touch mouse (mouse/cursor for operations in 3D cocpit), after 10-15 seconds cursor of mouse will be disappearing if Im in virtual cocpit.
This function works very well and will be work like cursor in Flight Simulator X.
If You touch a mouse and start to move cursor again, it will be displayed again.
Good?

I always have cursor near my nose sure, can move him to left/right corner but why? Easy tool for programmers.

[PotNoodles]

Good idea.

[159th_Jester]

Great idea!

[satchenko]

+1!!!!

[Blackdog_kt]

Pretty good i'd say. What would be best is if the invisible cursor would still activate pop-up tooltips.

This way, even with the cursor being invisible you could still get pop-ups displaying instrument information.

Then you could use it with your view controls too to scan your instruments: place cursor in the center of the screen, wait for it to disappear and then you can get a read-out of each instrument by looking at it, without having the cursor displaying in the center of your screen.

[outer beacon]

^ +1

[Luftwaffepilot]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Pretty good i'd say. What would be best is if the invisible cursor would still activate pop-up tooltips.

This way, even with the cursor being invisible you could still get pop-ups displaying instrument information.

Then you could use it with your view controls too to scan your instruments: place cursor in the center of the screen, wait for it to disappear and then you can get a read-out of each instrument by looking at it, without having the cursor displaying in the center of your screen.

I'd not like that. But if they made both of this optional, we'd all be happy.

[David198502]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Pretty good i'd say. What would be best is if the invisible cursor would still activate pop-up tooltips.

This way, even with the cursor being invisible you could still get pop-ups displaying instrument information.

Then you could use it with your view controls too to scan your instruments: place cursor in the center of the screen, wait for it to disappear and then you can get a read-out of each instrument by looking at it, without having the cursor displaying in the center of your screen.

i dont like that either....for me it makes already that pop up info about gauges, even if the mousecursor is on the right side on the screen.(sometimes)
for me its just annoying to see these rectangles popping up, giving me informations which i can read through the gauges anyway....of course it can be helpful for newcomers to the sim or to a certain plane, but for me flying the 109 now for more over a year, its not helpful but just distracting me from my virtual reality...
but of course if its optional, im all for it...oh and to the OP post...+1

[SG1_Lud]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Pretty good i'd say. What would be best is if the invisible cursor would still activate pop-up tooltips.

This way, even with the cursor being invisible you could still get pop-ups displaying instrument information.

Then you could use it with your view controls too to scan your instruments: place cursor in the center of the screen, wait for it to disappear and then you can get a read-out of each instrument by looking at it, without having the cursor displaying in the center of your screen.

I have an idea that is the following: make an optional tiny dot in the center of the screen. When you place this dot with your view over an instrument, you get a pop-up label. The properties of this label, (position, color, transparency etc) would be user configurable.

I came to this idea after a workaround I am using now for knowing always where is the center of the screen when using trackir. I created a new info window, naked and with no info, which only has a title. In the title I put a small "+" and place it in the exact center of the screen. Useful for zooming in/out without losing reference.