How do you allow the user to toggle between a custom hardware mouse cursor image?

[henvu50]

The user would go into preferences, and click a checkbox that says, "Custom Hardware Mouse Cursor Image".

When they do that, and restart the game, the game begins using a custom hardware mouse cursor image, but if the user goes back into preferences and disables the checkbox: "Custom Hardware Mouse Cursor Image", and then restarts the game, the game will once again use the default windows hardware mouse cursor.

How would you write the code for this?

Note: I can't use MouseDisplayable in conjuction with config.mouse and default_mouse, because it causes lag in some cases. I'd rather stick with hardware mouse cursor only, not overlaying an image over the mouse cursor.

It would work something like this in theory:

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if persistent.UseCustomHardwareMouseCursorImage:
    define config.mouse = { }    
    define config.mouse['default'] = [ ( "gui/c_mous_curs.webp", 0, 0) ]
    # notify user to restart ren'py game for changes to take effect
    # restart ren'py game
else:
    # do nothing, just use default hardware mouse cursor
    # notify user to restart ren'py game for changes to take effect

[m_from_space]

So what's your question, since you already posted a solution? Did you test it?

[henvu50]

That is just a code example to demonstrate the theory of what I need. It doesn't work. Wrapping a define with a if then conditional won't work.

I don't think there's anyway to let the user Toggle a custom hardware mouse cursor, even if they restart the game.

This code just won't work.

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init offset = -3

define config.mouse = { }    
define config.mouse['default'] = [ ( "gui/image.webp", 0, 0) ]
default persistent.custCursorMouse = True

init python:
    # when  game first runs
    if persistent.custCursorMouse:
        # use a custom image for hardware mouse cursor
        config.mouse['default'] = [ ( "gui/image.webp", 0, 0) ]
    else:
        # use default white mouse cursor
        config.mouse = None

[jeffster]

Ren'Py initializes its interface in renpy/display/core.py.
https://github.com/renpy/renpy

There is a store variable default_mouse to change default mouse cursor
https://github.com/renpy/renpy/blob/fb4 ... e.py#L3269

Documentation:
https://renpy.org/doc/html/store_variab ... ault_mouse