Mouse cursor invisible

[chris cappuchan]

I had the issue listed above since buying the game at launch after doing a lot of research I came accross the following solution:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/930337-xanadu-next/71864031/821679188
thank you to whoever wrote that and shame on whoever ported this game

[Saralene]

That issue exists in all PC versions of the game, so no "porting" is really at fault here.
It only happens on some systems, but it's the same reason a lot of other older games (and rarely, modern games) have a similar setting due to iffy hardware mouse cursor behaviors.
I do hope to find a solution, of course, nonetheless, in the hopes that hardware mouse cursors can work on all systems. But the entire reason that options like that exist is for issues like this...?

[chris cappuchan]

Oh okay then I apologize. The link I listed gave me the solution to the issue.

[Showtime, Synergy!]

I use an AutoHotKey script that toggles between mouse trails on and off. While the mouse trails length setting is at 0, so no mouse trails actually appear, the benefit is that having mouse trails ostensibly on turns the hardware cursor into a software cursor, which makes it visible in games where I can't otherwise see it. Perhaps this will work around the issue for Xanadu Next? Try it out.

Here's the code. You need to install AutoHotKey, paste this into a fresh .ahk file, and run the file:

global mtrails := 0

{ ; toggle mousetrails off (hardware cursor) for games with invisible mouse
#j::
if mtrails = 0
	{
		SPI_SETMOUSETRAILS := 0x5D
		DllCall("SystemParametersInfo", UInt, SPI_SETMOUSETRAILS, UInt, 0, Str, 0, UInt, 0)
		global mtrails := 1
		Return
	}
Else
	{
		SPI_SETMOUSETRAILS := 0x5D
		DllCall("SystemParametersInfo", UInt, SPI_SETMOUSETRAILS, UInt, -1, Str, 0, UInt, 0)
		global mtrails := 0
		Return
	}
}

"#j" near the top means you toggle this on and off by pressing Windows Key + J. If that conflicts with an existing bind in your Windows (I forget if it does) you can change it to something else.

Here are the other possible key command modifiers, and a link to more info:

; http://ahkscript.org/docs/Hotkeys.htm
; ! = Alt   ^ = Ctrl   + = Shift   # = Win