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[rjfalconer]

Hello,
I'm writing a cross-platform application with a relatively expensive render cost. To avoid mouse lag, I would like to display the system cursor rather than the OIS rendered one.
Ideally, this would have a custom cursor when inside the render window.

Ie,
> Cursor is "grabbed" (for the purposes of events), but system cursor is still visible.
> System cursor is reskinned

How would I go about doing this?
Any comments or advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance. =)


Further information;
I am currently using OIS mouseEvents.
App uses Ogre::RenderWindow, and has createInputSystem() params "DISCL_FOREGROUND" and "DISCL_NONEXCLUSIVE".
There is some overlap with this thread; http://www.wreckedgames.com/forum/index.php?topic=323.0 ; disable grabbing mouse, but still get events.

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My hacky solution was to hide the OIS cursor, and set a custom system cursor;

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HCURSOR cursor = (HCURSOR)LoadImage(
        NULL,
        "c:/cursor.ico",  //icon, cursor, or bitmap file (changed actual xplatform path for readability)
        IMAGE_CURSOR, //type, matching file above
        0, //width. 0 uses the width of the file provided
        0, //height. 0 uses the height of the file provided
        LR_LOADFROMFILE //Loads the stand-alone image from the file specified by lpszName
    );
SetClassLong(window_id, GCL_HCURSOR, (LONG)cursor);

This still suffers from the problem of the actual cursor lagging behind, but it's much less noticeable from the user's perspective.