Use hardware accelerated mouse cursor

Bug #248041 reported by Alexey Torkhov
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ember
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Having mouse cursor lag is really disturbing, we should make it use hardware acceleration.

Changed in ember:
status: New → Confirmed
status: Confirmed → New
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Erik Ogenvik (erik-ogenvik) wrote :

This is very much true. The main problem is however that SDL only supports black and white cursors, as described here: http://libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/SDL_CreateCursor
We could of course go with that, but it would be nice to have a coloured cursor as we have now.
The suggested way in the SDL docs is to draw a SDL_Surface for the cursor, but I fear that that will work just as it does now (i.e. the cursor is only drawn once each Ember frame). So if we want to use coloured cursors I guess that we need to look at how to hook that up with lower level X calls instead (and corresponding win32 calls).

Changed in ember:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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