Mouse cursor problem

bstanle

Hi,

I have been using Daz for several years.  I am currently using Daz Studio - version 4.15.0.2 (64 bit) but the problem started happening with the previous version.  I upgraded to the most recent version a few weeks back but the problem persists.

The problem that occurs randomly and seems to affect both simple and complicated scenes. I even tried old simple scenes that never had that problem but the problem occurs there as well. The problem is with the mouse cursor.  The symptoms are:

1. The mouse cursor dissapears but the mouse seems to be active.
2. When I move the mouse around, different parts of the scene
   are selected but the mouse cursor is invisible.  
3. The mouse cursor is invisiblle everywhere in DAZ.  (scene aas well as the menues.
4. I often use MS Hearts while waiting for a scene to open or be saved. The mouse and cursor behaves perfectly.  The problem affects only DAZ.
5. The Keyboard works in DAZ so <Ctrl-S> saves the scene and <Ctrl-Q> does an orderly exit from DAZ.
6. I thought that changing to a new mouse eould help but the problem  persists.

Has anybody has a similar problem?  Is there any clue as to what is causing it?  Are there any sugestions on what to do?

Bill Stanley

 

marble

This question seems to be asked on a regular basis and the answer is, yes, it is a known bug. It has been there for years and people have been complaining about it on this forum for years.

Anyhow, it happens when you inadvertently click the left and right mouse buttons at the same time (not always but often). You can either save/quit and start over or blindly move your mouse cursor (it continues to highlight things it passes over) until you are over one of the Viewport controls like the camera view dropdown box. Click on that and the mouse cursor is visible again.

mikael-aronsson

It's a good chance that is the classic ShowCursor bug in DS, the ShowCursor() function use a counter and a common bug is that people call ShowCursor( FALSE); two times and miss out on calling ShowCursor( TRUE); the same number of times, and in that case the cursor will never show up again unless trhe count is corrected with more calls to ShowCursor() .

bstanle

Hi,

Thanks for the information.  I didn't want to call it a bug, but that is what it appears to be.  In the future, I'll be more careful about not pressing both mouse buttons!  I hope this will rectify things.

Bill Stanley