Ultima IX: Ascension

the previous hack doesn't work anymore on wine 1.3.27 because mouse.c file changed too much since 1.0rc1 but out of luck i've found that at line 200 start a function named set_window_cursor() and if you comment it all with /* */ and add a return; statement, like this:

void set_window_cursor( Window window, HCURSOR handle )
{
/*
...
*/
return;
}

you have your X pointer visible all the time..

i suppose i used to put that return statement right at the first line of said function without even touching the rest .. and it stuck somehow without me noticing, but now that i think about it,
i suspect it is highly possible that it's kind of useless now with the rest commented out, function being void and all but well it's early morning and all (15:20) it's not possible to be cerrtain of anything yet.

hi

it has been running very well and fast at new 1.0-rc1 (with MultiPassChromakey=0),
w/o the slowdowns of previous versions,
tho the mouse is still invisible at inventory, journal etc.

I also tryed unsuccessfuly the wine/hacks.git version. To try it, issue this command (you gotta have "git" installed...):
git clone repo.or.cz/wine/hacks.git wine-hack

So I hacked the mouse xD,
tho it is still a very "ugly" workaround...
but less annoying than not being able to see the mouse (if there had just a tiny picture to the mouse, it would be great, just 2 dots, one white and one black).
And it is so simple that I will just say here how to do:

1-compile your wine and install it

2-cd to your wine compiled source at
cd .../wine-1.0-rc1/dlls/winex11.drv
cp mouse.c mouse.c.bkp
cp winex11.drv.so winex11.drv.so.bkp
kwrite mouse.c

3-edit this mouse.c file by adding "if(!lpCursor)return;" just after the "{" like this:
...
void X11DRV_SetCursor( CURSORICONINFO *lpCursor )
{
if(!lpCursor)return;
...

4-save mouse.c file and close kwrite (with this code, you just prevented mouse pointer picture/image from being unset/cleared).

5-compile just this current path of wine
make

6-copy the file "winex11.drv.so" that has just been created, to your installed wine path at .../lib/wine/winex11.drv.so
6.1-you can backup that installed library also just cd to that path and
cp winex11.drv.so winex11.drv.so.bkp
7-thats it. run wine and see that ugly but usefull mouse xD

Be aware that all steps of all applications will "suffer" of the never hidden mouse "feature", even at intro movies etc...
To disable it just restore you backup library file.

the git command should have shown this (remove the space between git:// and repo...):
git clone git:// repo.or.cz/wine/hacks.git wine-hack

I added Bug #13683 some time ago. Not sure if it helps getting it resolved, but perhaps you could help confirm the bug it by a comment or vote, since you experience the same?