I consider your plugin an evolution of the famous System Mouse Ex, but I notice that your plugin does not do one thing: the ability to call icons on the mouse like MouseEx, will you implement it? For my project I use character charset that are 3 tiles high and I'm using ausilliary events to let the baloon icon to appear and to interact in the upper tiles, it's not very practical...
I think if it’s about adding an icon next to the cursor, rather than changing the cursor itself, it’s possible to implement that in a clean way here 🤔
I hadn’t really thought about this. I’ll look into it eventually, but one issue is that my pixel- and Command-based hit test is much more expensive in terms of performance than the tile-based lookup that MouseSystemEx does.
That’s fine if the code runs only once per click, but to update the cursor each (interactive) frame, it’s likely a bit too expensive without further optimisation.
I can’t give you an estimate for when this will be available right now. In theory it’s not difficult, but I haven’t been able to work much at all on new plugins or features lately.
Yes, an icon next to the mouse, that would be exactly what I needed!
I understand that your plugins aren't a priority right now, but if you add this in the future, I'll keep checking this page for updates and will stop adding auxiliary events to characters.
It'll take a while, but I'm really looking forward to this update!
Close call for “within this year still”, but I made it I think ;)
Version 1.1.2 has this now (a bit more powerfully than you might expect). I’m a bit occupied with family/vacation, but I’ll likely be able to update the page text in a few hours.
Note that there’s a slight time lag between native cursor movement and how these hint sprites move, which I don’t think I can avoid.
If you don’t need pixel testing, picking, interaction ranges, mouse button choice, multiple entry points or mid-move accuracy, then also have a look at Tor Damian Design’s Mouse System Ex, which is free but tests only against the event’s occupied tile.
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I consider your plugin an evolution of the famous System Mouse Ex, but I notice that your plugin does not do one thing: the ability to call icons on the mouse like MouseEx, will you implement it?
For my project I use character charset that are 3 tiles high and I'm using ausilliary events to let the baloon icon to appear and to interact in the upper tiles, it's not very practical...
I think if it’s about adding an icon next to the cursor, rather than changing the cursor itself, it’s possible to implement that in a clean way here 🤔
I hadn’t really thought about this. I’ll look into it eventually, but one issue is that my pixel- and Command-based hit test is much more expensive in terms of performance than the tile-based lookup that MouseSystemEx does.
That’s fine if the code runs only once per click, but to update the cursor each (interactive) frame, it’s likely a bit too expensive without further optimisation.
I can’t give you an estimate for when this will be available right now. In theory it’s not difficult, but I haven’t been able to work much at all on new plugins or features lately.
Yes, an icon next to the mouse, that would be exactly what I needed!
I understand that your plugins aren't a priority right now, but if you add this in the future, I'll keep checking this page for updates and will stop adding auxiliary events to characters.
It'll take a while, but I'm really looking forward to this update!
I’ll see what (and when) I can do 🙂
Hopefully it’ll happen within this year still.
Close call for “within this year still”, but I made it I think ;)
Version 1.1.2 has this now (a bit more powerfully than you might expect). I’m a bit occupied with family/vacation, but I’ll likely be able to update the page text in a few hours.
Note that there’s a slight time lag between native cursor movement and how these hint sprites move, which I don’t think I can avoid.
If you don’t need pixel testing, picking, interaction ranges, mouse button choice, multiple entry points or mid-move accuracy, then also have a look at Tor Damian Design’s Mouse System Ex, which is free but tests only against the event’s occupied tile.