[QLab] Hiding the cursor

[Gareth Fry]

Hiyah,

So I have an installation running of 9 Mac Mini's, each connected to a
projector, running a video loop. The machines power themselves down each
night and start-up each morning and run a little script to open the Qlab
workspace and Go on the cue in the cue-list. Quite often, and not
consistently the mouse pointer is failing to hide itself when the video cue
is played, so am having to send someone around every day with a mouse to
click to get the pointer to disappear. Is there anything I can do to ensure
the pointer is hidden?

cheers
g



Gareth Fry
Sound designer

Mobile: +44 7973 352669
email: gare...@hotmail.com
web: http://www.garethfry.co.uk


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[Salvador Avila]

Hi Gareth and all,

Cursorcerer is a utility that will do that for ya. All you have to do is to tell it to hide the cursor after 1sec of inactivity.

Its got a good price too; free.

You can grab it here: http://www.doomlaser.com/downloads/Cursorcerer.zip

All the best,

Salvador Bettencourt Avila //

+44 (0)7876 453 668 (mobile) //

m...@salvadoravila.co.uk

[Gareth Fry]

Hello,

Thanks for the tip Salvadore. Unfortunately Cursorceror doesn't seem to work when there isn't a mouse and keyboard plugged in, or rather when the mouse hasn't been moved from it's boot up position. I geuss that doesn't work for the same reason that QLab's method doesn't work either. 

Is there a way to do this using Applescript I wonder, or perhaps a way to virtually wiggle the mouse such that QLab or Cursorceror's method to hide the mouse do work?

Which leads onto my next post...

Gareth Fry Sound Designer Phone: +44 (0)7973 352669 Web: http://www.garethfry.co.uk

[Rich Walsh]

For moving, have a look at:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2008051406323031

If you download the binary you can "do shell script" to run it.

I found this for hiding:

http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=26354

I can get "call method "setHiddenUntilMouseMoves:" of class "NSCursor" with parameter 1 " to work in my own application when it is frontmost, but I can't do much with it in QLab...

Rich
 
On Wednesday, May 05, 2010, at 07:42PM, "Gareth Fry" <gare...@hotmail.com> wrote:

[Luka Mustafa]

Hey,

here is an app you could try. And toggle the cursor with a script cue.

http://doomlaser.com/cursorcerer-hide-your-cursor-at-will/ 

Best regards,

Luka

[Gareth Fry]

Thanks everyone for replies. 

Could i place a feature request for a future incarnation of QLab?

When playing video fullscreen with a single display (the current scenario when the mouse pointer hides itself, but doesn't if a mouse isn't connected): To change the pointer shape to a one pixel dot.

many thanks,

G