Mouse pointer translucent (Piccolo SD64)

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    Hi. I am using P96 on a 1024x768x16-bit screen and I am running AmigaOS 3.2.2. I selected the Big Black mouse pointer in pointer prefs and it is translucent and changes colour when you move it over objects such as a drawer. I would like it to be solid black. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I don't know if it is a Piccolo limitation or OS issue or something else. Thanks.

    This is not "translucent", but "colour inverted". Please take a look at the FAQ of P96 if you haven't done so yet: The VGA chip on the Piccolo SD64 can only support two sprite colours, and the third is always "invert". There's an entry in the FAQ for that.


    For getting a solig black mouse pointer with your particular hardware, you should edit the pointer to only use the first two colours, and define them in the desired way.


    Jens

    Setting SoftSprite worked, now the mouse pointer is correct.


    Now, next up is how to drag screens....I can't pull the workbench down nor drag if I have also IBrowse open on it's own screen. I did not see a tooltype or ENV variable to set to allow screen dragging. The Piccolo SD64 has 2MB of ram and I am using 1024x768x16-bit screen(s).

    Quote from DarrenHD

    The Piccolo SD64 has 2MB of ram and I am using 1024x768x16-bit screen(s).

    ...so one screen takes up 1536 KBytes of memory. A second screen just doesn't fit the on-board graphics memory, so it's natural that you can't drag screens.


    Jens

    Hi Jens, yes makes sense. The card has 8 chips for ram, 4 of them are socketed. I wonder if it is possible to upgrade the card to 4MB. I could not find any information online about that so perhaps not.


    Darren

    Jens, turned out I had the Piccolo SD64 jumpered wrong. I changed JP2 to Auto Detect Memory (open) and now it reports 4MB. I can also drag screens too. It will only drag if there is actually a screen open. If there is not you cannot drag Workbench down to show nothing (black) behind it. This is how it works on the Amiga chipset I believe. You can drag workbench down and it will show black if there is nothing behind it.


    Nevertheless, it's working now!


    Darren

    Screen dragging on VGA cards is substantially different, as VGA cards don't have a copper like the Amiga does. They always need "something" to display, so the only possibility to re-create the behaviour of the Amiga chipset would be to keep an empty screen in the background. For such a useless action, I think that's a bit too much effort. RTG is about displaying things on improved hardware, not hide things outside the visible area.


    Jens