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Hourglass Cursor Not Pointer/Hand etc
Camstudio is fantastic, thanks- great contribution.... BUT...
Help. Trying to use Camstudio on a fairly new machine. (Windows 7, HP intel i7 Nvidea).
Have tried uninstalling and re installing and have tried everything mentioned in support queries containing the word 'cursor' eg sound settings.
I still have an hourglass (wait) cursor instead of pointer in the output (not whilst recording). This will confuse users in the tutorials I'm trying to write. I can turn on highlight options no prob but always in the finished vid the cursor is an hourglass. Grrrrr.
Help. Trying to use Camstudio on a fairly new machine. (Windows 7, HP intel i7 Nvidea).
Have tried uninstalling and re installing and have tried everything mentioned in support queries containing the word 'cursor' eg sound settings.
I still have an hourglass (wait) cursor instead of pointer in the output (not whilst recording). This will confuse users in the tutorials I'm trying to write. I can turn on highlight options no prob but always in the finished vid the cursor is an hourglass. Grrrrr.
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Hope this help someone else. take care. Dan
Sorry I hadn't gotten to you in response, but I didn't have an answer for you (I was stumped) -- though now I DO with your reminding me of that audio quirk!
Thanks for mentioning it. I'll keep it in mind and pass it along to the programmers as well.
Terry
What worked for me is changing the video codec in "Options -> Video options" from "Camstudio Lossless" to "Microsoft video 1" and back.
Emile
"What worked for me is changing the video codec in "Options -> Video options" from "Camstudio Lossless" to "Microsoft video 1" and back. "
That did the trick??? I wonder why that would do it?
Anyway... thanks for the tip - I'll keep that in mind for next time I see this cursor issue coming up.
Terry
Excellent! And thank you for the tip on the aero_arrow.cur.
Terry
And BTW, playing around with settings actually does work although I doubt that it's exclusively related to the audio settings. However, you may have to commit multiple settings changes until CamStudio eventually gets back to normal operation.
Have you tried using the aero_arrow.cur or another custom cursor? If you had and it didn't work, that would further confuse this issue and complicate it even more!
Terry
However, I find this workaround not suitable in some occasions where the viewer is supposed to see changes in cursor appearance due to my actions.
Malte.
I totally agree that not seeing the custom cursor detracts from the teaching environment. I just wish we could figure out why this is an intermittent problem.
Terry
For my presentations I often use a screen annotation tool and, after extensive testing, decided to go with Presentation Marker.
When in annotation mode, Presentation marker will show a custom cursor (a pen, brush, or else) which is reverted back to a normal cursor when exiting annotation mode.
This all works seemingly fine as long as you don't watch your recorded videos. Here's what happens on my system:
(1) CamStudio will not record the correct cursor but just a dot with the annotation color that you selected in Presentation marker.
(2) CamStudio will stick with this cursor regardless of whether you are in annotation mode or not.
I got a related error in ZoomIt. There, in annotation mode, a simple plus sign with the currently selected annotation color is displayed as the cursor. CamStudio not only records this plus-cursor but the regular arrow cursor attached to it as well. At least, with ZoomIt everything changes back to normal when you exit annotation mode.
May all these kinks be related?
Bye, Malte
This somewhat seems to be related to video card drivers, though. That is, CamStudio records some people's cursors just fine (like my two machines do) but some machines really make mincemeat out of the whole thing.
Hardware.
Terry