custom cursors

malcooning · Post by **malcooning** » 13 Jun 2006, 13:13

Hey,
Is there any way we can create/install new CURSORS additional, or replacing the exisiting ones?

A.

Post by **TVPaint** » 13 Jun 2006, 13:42

Hi A.
unfortunately you can't install custom cursors but you can suggest some new ones that we will implement in the next minor update

Post by **TVPaint** » 14 Jun 2006, 14:15

In addition to my previous post, custom cursors can't be installed externally of the soft as you may install papers or custom brushes. You'll need a little patch to install new cursors.
Have you examples of custom cursors you'd like to use ?

malcooning · Post by **malcooning** » 14 Jun 2006, 18:12

Hey N.
Thanks for the patch offer. I followed Raymond's suggestion to use Restorator, so I created new cursor with Artcursors and saved them as .cur files and then replaced them with the existing 'circle' and 'dot'. I've attached jpgs of them below.
I didn't take the time to learn how to create patches, but maybe once I do I can post it up in the forums.
Cheers,
Asaf

fanany · Post by **fanany** » 14 Jun 2006, 20:04

a "must-have" would be to have the ability to swap between your 2 or 3 most favorite Cursors
via shortKeys or CP buttons,
for example, to swap from "Left-Up" to "Left-Down", and vis-versa, or from your "pen" to your "small one".
I would love that!

malcooning · Post by **malcooning** » 15 Jun 2006, 23:06

but if the cursors can be changed noly via patching, is there any way to implement such shortcut?
Of course I don't want to belittle the power of the programmer

it would be fantastic to swap about your cursors. the potential of different cursors for different usages is amazing.

malcooning · Post by **malcooning** » 15 Jun 2006, 23:34

but the ultimate blow of all cursors in the world will be a cursor that rotates with the tilt and angle of the stylus!

fanany · Post by **fanany** » 16 Jun 2006, 12:10

malcooning wrote:but if the cursors can be changed noly via patching, is there any way to implement such shortcut?
Of course I don't want to belittle the power of the programmer
it would be fantastic to swap about your cursors. the potential of different cursors for different usages is amazing.

I was pre-supposing new cursors implemented in the main code (extending the basis library), not through a patch.
just throwing ideas for new features in the next TVPA version or TVPS(?)

malcooning wrote:but the ultimate blow of all cursors in the world will be a cursor that rotates with the tilt and angle of the stylus!

I wouldn't dare ask that!

the ultimate, for sure, though I guess such a feature would tax time-computing,
and considerably slow down the "realtime" drawing display, unless you have a 5Ghz quad-core cpu machine...
(hope I'm wrong !)