Hiding pointer during monitor blanking?

[thetao]

When connected to a remote computer and blanking the monitor (using alpha blending), is the a way to also hide the mouse pointer? I suppose I don't use this feature very often, but I just noticed the remote user can still see the pointer, even though they can't move it or see the screen. Can this be done?

Thanks,

Todd

[supercoe]

I've noticed this as well, I don't believe there is a fix.

[B]

But there's a dumbass workaround: on the remote station's Mouse control panel, temporarily set the pointer to be invisible. Apparently you actually have to use a custom invisible GIF rather than turning it off entirely.

Some guidelines towards the bottom at http://www.1earthadventures.com/2008/04 ... indows-xp/

It would be a fun little hack to script this to toggle back and forth.

Or, in your case, I suppose making the pointer's edge and fill colors the SAME as your background color would do the trick too.

[thetao]

Hmm, to change the pointer, you're likely just flipping a DWORD (or something similar) in the registry. This may not be a clean coding practice, but it would be very easy to add this to the code. It would be a little more work to add a user hook to "run this script when activating or deactivating a feature", but maybe that could be a feature request? Thanks for the tip.

[B]

Yeah, but I see that being all kinds of dangerous, where when disconnecting you leave people without a visible cursor. And custom cursor schemes and apps might not recover well. Same reason I hate and turn off the default "Mouse Sonar" setting.

As an optional admin thing, though, it would convenient to have.