With 7.00 underway ... cursor hiding, please?

[arquebusx]

EGOSOFT, you granted my wildest dreams when you implemented the deselect hotkey that I'd been ranting about for years.

So I figured I'd push a little farther...

It would be really nice if the cursor disappeared when the player actuates a gamepad or joystick. Once a player's hands are on a device, the cursor serves no function other than as a distraction.

I've been using kuertee's reset mouse mod (which moves the cursor off screen), so I'd forgotten how much of a nuisance it was, but with 7.00 beta I'm playing unmodded so...

[Buzz2005]

deselect has been in the game since release afaik

gamepad mode should be on when you play with controller, its under options, in that mode the mouse pointers hides when you use controller

[arquebusx]

deselect has been in the game since release afaik

It wasn't - it was added in a later update. You had to click open space with the mouse, there was no bindable hotkey.

gamepad mode should be on when you play with controller, its under options, in that mode the mouse pointers hides when you use controller

Thank you! I'd had this set to Controllers Only by mistake so I assumed it didn't do what I wanted.

Carry on.

[arquebusx]

Ah, dang, now I remember why I turned it off in the first place.

If you have Gamepad mode turned on, and then you move the mouse, it treats that input as movement. It's been doing that for years.

[Buzz2005]

wdym? in what circumstances? what moves

[arquebusx]

wdym? in what circumstances? what moves

It's reproducible for me 100% of the time, and here's what happens:

1) I have Gamepad mode ON for controllers and joysticks.
2) I am in my cockpit, flying around using my Saitek X-56 stick and throttle.
3) I stop all movement (for purposes of the test).
4) I move the mouse.
5) My ship starts yawing/pitching as if the mouse were a control device (i.e., the ship turns in the direction of the mouse move). Very slowly, more like a drift than an actual turn.

If I move the mouse a second time, the yawing/pitching stops. And if I go back to my joystick, the yawing/pitching stops. But every time I move from the joystick to the mouse (where the mouse is explicitly only for selecting things, not for controlling the ship's axes), I get a little pitch/yaw drift. It's been doing this since 1.0.