Mériol Lehmann

Hi, I have a patch with a loadbang on ";max hidemenubar" and ";max hidecursor". It works wery well with my Powerbook 1,33Ghz, 10.4.6. However, on the Mac mini I should use for the installation, as soon as I move the mouse, the cursor is back. This behavior doesn't happen on the Powebook. Anybody has a cue on that?

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Just to keep up-to-date: as a workaround, I'm finally using mousestate to send ";max hidecursor" each time the mouse is moved.

On 7-Jun-2006, at 20:45, Meriol Lehmann wrote:

> Just to keep up-to-date: as a workaround, I'm finally using 

> mousestate to send ";max hidecursor" each time the mouse is moved.

There's a 3rd Party object that allows you to redefine the mouse 

cursor that might be more reliable for your purposes: define the 

cursor to have no colored bits and no mask.

Unfortunately, I don't recall the object name, but you should be able 

Even more unfortunately, I don't know if the object is OS X-savvy.

Apologies for the vagueness, but it might be worth your while to do a 

search at the maxobjects site to see what alternatives there are.

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> Just to keep up-to-date: as a workaround, I'm finally using  
> mousestate to send ";max hidecursor" each time the mouse is moved.

There's a 3rd Party object that allows you to redefine the mouse  
cursor that might be more reliable for your purposes: define the  
cursor to have no colored bits and no mask.

Unfortunately, I don't recall the object name, but you should be able  
to find it at maxobjects.com.

Apologies for the vagueness, but it might be worth your while to do a  
search at the maxobjects site to see what alternatives there are.

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You need a resource editor to redefine your own cursor (Resedit, 

rs.cursor which you can find here:
http://arts.lu/roby

You need a resource editor to redefine your own cursor (Resedit,  
Resourcerer, ...)
Of course, it's Mac only (OS9 + OSX)

for hide mouse, first download the library "Real Time Composition Library - RTC-lib" from 

and then here is a exemple patch for hide mouse, is for Mac and WinXP:

for hide mouse, first download the library "Real Time Composition Library - RTC-lib" from  http://www.essl.at/software.html

Thanks Albert, but I've already done that. The problem is not hiding the cursor, the problem is that the cursor re-appears each time the mouse is moved. And this behavior is only on the Mac Mini, not on my Powerbook. Anyway, using mousestate to hide the cursor each time the mouse is moved works.

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