Set position to(Mouse.X,Mouse.Y)Chrome performance

Let's say you had a sprite called CursorSprite that you wanted to use as your mouse cursor. You set CursorSprite's position to Mouse.X and Mouse.Y every tick and hide the default mouse cursor by setting the Mouse's cursor type to "none".

Then you only test for the CursorSprite's position. Instead of doing "is mouse over object?" you do "is CursorSprite overlapping object?" And instead of comparing "Mouse.X" or "Mouse.Y", you compare "CursorSprite.X" and "CursorSprite.Y". The only mouse conditions you would really end up needing are the "On button clicked/button down" conditions.

That's how I do it anyway.

My game uses a sprite for a mouse cursor. What I do is I don't check for Mouse.X or Mouse.Y, but rather the mouse cursor sprite's X and Y. That way you don't get the appearance of that delay in positioning. It's still there obviously, but it doesn't matter. Works great for my game (which is a point and click adventure by the way).

Some browsers use techniques like double-buffering that make the game run faster - but this imposes a one-frame delay, so things like this are always one frame behind. It's typical of practically any game engine as well.

You should not try and use sprites to replace the mouse cursor because of this problem. It can make input really laggy and frustrating. If you're just dragging around other objects, the delay shouldn't be a problem.

cesisco wrote: Thanks,i'm using R74(wainting for a a more stable version

@Cecisco: the very latest version (r79.4) is the latest stable version.
You really should update to it.

Thanks,i'm using R74(wainting for a a more stable version) but if this happens with the capx file aswell, it has to be a chrome problem.Any suggestions?

Edited by cesisco - 23 Feb 2012 at 5:20pm