MOUSESHOW

The _MOUSESHOW statement displays the mouse cursor and can change its shape.

Syntax

_MOUSESHOW [cursorShape$]

Description

• Simply use the statement whenever _MOUSEHIDE has been used previously.
• In version 1.000 and up the following cursorShape$ can be displayed:

_MOUSESHOW "LINK" will display an upward pointing hand cursor used to denote hypertext

_MOUSESHOW "TEXT" will display the I cursor often used in text entry areas

_MOUSESHOW "CROSSHAIR" will display a crosshair cursor

_MOUSESHOW "VERTICAL" will display vertical arrow cursor for movement

_MOUSESHOW "HORIZONTAL" will display horizontal arrow cursor for movement

_MOUSESHOW "TOPLEFT_BOTTOMRIGHT" will display bottom diagonal arrow cursor for movement

_MOUSESHOW "TOPRIGHT_BOTTOMLEFT" will display bottom diagonal arrow cursor for movement

_MOUSESHOW "DEFAULT" can be used after a mouse cursor statement above was previously used.

• This statement will also disable _MOUSEMOVEMENTX or _MOUSEMOVEMENTY relative mouse movement reads.
• The mouse cursor will not interfere with any print or graphic screen changes in QB64.

QBasic/QuickBASIC

• _MOUSEHIDE statements do not accumulate like they did with ABSOLUTE or INTERRUPT in QBasic.

Examples

Example 1: QB64 1.000 and up allow special cursors to be displayed by using special string parameters:

_MOUSESHOW "default": _DELAY 0.5 _MOUSESHOW "link": _DELAY 0.5 'a hand, typically used in web browsers _MOUSESHOW "text": _DELAY 0.5 _MOUSESHOW "crosshair": _DELAY 0.5 _MOUSESHOW "vertical": _DELAY 0.5 _MOUSESHOW "horizontal": _DELAY 0.5 _MOUSESHOW "topleft_bottomright": _DELAY 0.5 _MOUSESHOW "topright_bottomleft": _DELAY 0.5

Note: There is no hourglass, stopwatch or spinning colorful wheel in the list. The fact is that these typically only appear in a program when something has gone terribly wrong and the program has crashed or frozen.

See also

• _MOUSEHIDE
• _MOUSEINPUT
• _MOUSEMOVE
• _MOUSEX, _MOUSEY
• _MOUSEBUTTON
• _MOUSEMOVEMENTX, _MOUSEMOVEMENTY
• _DEVICES, _DEVICE$

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