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Posted by orgin on 2008/10/31 22:18:14 (2597 reads) News by the same author

The OpenAmiga project Extended default mouse pointer types has been finished!

Download the result from the bottom of the project page or from os4depot.

Project description:

Originally AmigaOS only handles two pointers, the normal pointer and the busy pointer. But modern GUI design has created a need for a more versatile range of pointers to give a more precise feedback to the user such as resizing, zooming and drag&drop. From OS4.0 32Bit pointers was introduced by using icon images in the env(arc):sys/ folder for the normal and busy pointer. This project adds a range of other pointers in the same way. For non 32Bit capable systems and/or screens applications are recommended to fall back to the original normal/busy pointers.

Thanks to Martin Merz for the pointer images and Simon Archer for insight into the AmigaOS icon system.

About OpenAmiga.org
OpenAmiga.org is an organization in the making that aims at enhancing the AmigaOS4 experience, acting as an Amiga community based research and development department. OpenAmiga.org aims at providing finished enhancements for AmigaOS4 that Hyperion can include in their AmigaOS4 distribution, research advanced topics and act as a developer resource for AmigaOS4 developers.

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Rigo	Published: 2008/10/31 22:20 Updated: 2008/10/31 22:20
Supreme Council Joined: 11/19/2006 From: London, England Comments: 1385	Re: Project Extended default mouse pointer types finished Excellent to see the first content come out of this fantastic project! Long may it live, and produce. Simon

Chris	Published: 2008/11/1 0:34 Updated: 2008/11/1 0:35
Amigans Defender Joined: 11/17/2006 From: England Comments: 3361	Re: Project Extended default mouse pointer types finished def_contextmenupointer is broken. It's a good first step, but really the OS itself needs to be updated to handle it. With the standard and busy pointers, I can use SetWindowPointer() and get the old-style or 32-bit imagery without any additional work. Really, the following needs to happen: SetWindowPointer is expanded with a new tag WA_PointerType which allows to select the pointers including and beyond WBP_BUSY. Pointer prefs needs to be extended to support the new types (the prefs file is already capable of supporting these) Pointer prefs needs to be able to support 32-bit pointers directly (maybe toggle between old & new like IconEdit does)

orgin	Published: 2008/11/1 9:09 Updated: 2008/11/1 9:09
Supreme Council Joined: 11/16/2006 From: Sweden Comments: 3272	Re: Project Extended default mouse pointer types finished @Chris Read the pdf :) In what way is that icon "broken" ? (works here)

mailman	Published: 2008/11/1 9:11 Updated: 2008/11/1 9:11
Just popping in Joined: 12/01/2006 From: Comments: 119	Re: Project Extended default mouse pointer types finished I got really bemused. Does it mean that AmigaOS 4.x support them or is it just a package with some new pointer images which are for now useless?

orgin	Published: 2008/11/1 10:54 Updated: 2008/11/1 10:54
Supreme Council Joined: 11/16/2006 From: Sweden Comments: 3272	Re: Project Extended default mouse pointer types finished @mailman It's a bit like Mason's AISS package. Application developers can use these pointers for different situations in their applications. Look at how OWB uses different pointers. The autobordersize commodity is another example. This project simply provides a set of standard pointers to use instead of each application developer using their own pointers. Plus as a bonus it gives you 2 really nice mouse pointers for the workbench (normal and busy) :) Naturally the next steps are to 1. include these with an os4 update and 2. update intuition.library/reaction to handle these more automatically. 1 and 2 has been sent to Hyperion for evaluation.

Chris	Published: 2008/11/1 11:43 Updated: 2008/11/1 11:43
Amigans Defender Joined: 11/17/2006 From: England Comments: 3361	Re: Project Extended default mouse pointer types finished @orgin I read the PDF after I wrote that... The contextmenupointer is the same as the default mouse pointer - I was expecting the imagery to be more like the one Mason sent to me for NetSurf. Hence broken as it doesn't indicate what it is supposed to.

orgin	Published: 2008/11/1 12:02 Updated: 2008/11/1 12:02
Supreme Council Joined: 11/16/2006 From: Sweden Comments: 3272	Re: Project Extended default mouse pointer types finished @chris Mason wanted it like that. The shadow is somewhat different.

Chris	Published: 2008/11/1 12:31 Updated: 2008/11/1 12:31
Amigans Defender Joined: 11/17/2006 From: England Comments: 3361	Re: Project Extended default mouse pointer types finished From the description I see it is for a different purpose, so it makes sense now (a context menu is being accessed vs a popup menu is available)

mailman	Published: 2008/11/1 17:14 Updated: 2008/11/1 17:14
Just popping in Joined: 12/01/2006 From: Comments: 119	Re: Project Extended default mouse pointer types finished @orgin Thanks for clarifing this. It was no so obvious.