Mouse cursor missing after using debug console

[IBwWG]

• Flixel version: dev
• OpenFL version: 3.6.0
• Lime version: 2.9.0
• Affected targets: flash debug

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Steps to reproduce

1. press ~ to bring up the debug console
2. press tab OR click in the console text field so you can type
3. press ~ to hide the debug console

Observed behavior: mouse cursor is permanently gone
Expected behavior: mouse cursor should be unaffected by this

[Gama11]

Huh... I don't think this has always been the case, must've broken at some point.

[larsiusprime]

I've noticed this a whole bunch! I thought I was being crazy!

[Gama11]

Looks like this has actually been happening for a while (at least 3.3.12 - unfortunately it's difficult to go back further than that because of breaking changes in both OpenFL and Haxe).

[Gama11]

There are actually multiple different issues here. One of them is the fact that the debugger always sets useSystemCursor to false when it loses focus to revert to the Flixel cursor - regardless of what value useSystemCursor had previously, potentially overriding the user's changes.

The simplest solution would be to get rid of this "switch between Flixel and system cursor" behavior (always seemed somewhat annoying to me anyway) and render the Flixel cursor on top of the debugger. However, that's not really an option, since the mouse cursor still needs to work when the game is paused via the VCR buttons in the debugger - since that pauses the updating of FlxG.inputs as well, the cursor would currently stop moving.

[IBwWG]

For the record, I don't use any custom cursor...maybe I misunderstood though

[adrianulima]

could store all user's mouse properties when open the console and restore when close?

[Gama11]

That's more or less what I've done in a commit I haven't pushed yet.. Not when closing the debugger though, but when any debugger component loses focus.