CursorFX Beta 1 Feedback and Feature requests

No bug reports please

Tuesday, December 18, 2007 by ZubaZ | Discussion: WinCustomize News

If you got 'em, post 'em.
It'll make it easier for the devs

If you want to report a bug, head over to this post
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Aleatoric
Reply #21 Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:45 PM
However the current Ctrl+Shift+V key (will be customizable) is used exactly for toggling CFX on/off when necessary


Cool.

It would be useful to have a tab in the app (or at least a text file) that tells us what all of the hot key values are

I'm guessing that since the hot keys will eventually be customizable, that tab will also show the defaults.


ZubaZ
Reply #22 Thursday, December 20, 2007 2:20 PM
On the settings tab: Display a section of the current wallpaper so you can see what the cursor looks like in the "real" world opposed to the white background.

raisinjack
Reply #23 Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:03 PM
will this also get x64 support? also anybody trying it on Vista x64. right now I am using cursorxp plus on x64 and it works amazingly well.

Spyrofunk
Reply #24 Saturday, December 22, 2007 1:59 AM
Request:

Other buttons than LEFT or RIGHT support? also mousewheel support?

I can imagine it would be cool, when you move the mouse wheel the cursor changes into another animation (some arrows, or an actual mouse wheel with two moving arrows with alpha)

Talking about supporting other buttons, for example, one of the buttons in my mouse is configured to close any app, that's a good place to use that blue explosion animation, otherwise is too much cluttering to put it on the right or left button.

Another mouse button is configured to minimize apps, I think I can design some animation, I don't know a big red arrow moving towards the bottom, and fading out shortly, showing you've just minimized an app.

Another case, two other buttons are configured to go back/forward in webpages and windows, I can put a blue or red arrow pointing to the left or right and fading shortly, showing you've just moved back or forward.

that would be cool...


thanks!

Spyrofunk
Reply #25 Saturday, December 22, 2007 2:04 AM
Another cool feature would be to be able to allow to put "in-between" animations to go from one cursor to the other. Example, going from resize arrows to cursor. It would involve some sort of "intelligent" engine, that shows this or that in-between animations depending of which cursor you go from->to. (that way you can do morphs from cursors)

Another cool idea could be to implement an alpha blending crossfade between cursors, I can imagine a really quick crossfade will look fantastic!!!

kimmi44
Reply #26 Saturday, December 22, 2007 9:31 AM
I purchased CursorXP a few years back. Can anyone tell do I need to purchase Cursor FX or do I get Cursor FX plus to replace CursorXP? Thanks

ZubaZ
Reply #27 Saturday, December 22, 2007 1:32 PM
Another cool feature would be to be able to allow to put "in-between" animations to go from one cursor to the other
This is a feature of the cursor, not the engine.  Many do jsut like you describe.

ZubaZ
Reply #28 Saturday, December 22, 2007 1:36 PM
I purchased CursorXP a few years back. Can anyone tell do I need to purchase Cursor FX or do I get Cursor FX plus to replace CursorXP?
You will need to re-purchase CursorFX Plus.

JanOscar
Reply #29 Saturday, December 22, 2007 3:15 PM
You will need to re-purchase CursorFX Plus.


re-purchase? What happened to upgrade?

"CursorFX Plus Upgrade
Price: $9.95
All current CursorXP Plus users can upgrade to CursorFX Plus for a special price.

killajosh
Reply #30 Saturday, December 22, 2007 3:32 PM
"CursorFX Plus Upgrade
Price: $9.95
All current CursorXP Plus users can upgrade to CursorFX Plus for a special price.


I'm assuming that means all current CXP Plus subscribers (purchased within the last year). Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please....

neophil78
Reply #31 Saturday, December 22, 2007 4:32 PM
"CursorFX Plus Upgrade
Price: $9.95
All current CursorXP Plus users can upgrade to CursorFX Plus for a special price.


Things at Stardock are really becoming a big joke ...   


S J N
Reply #32 Saturday, December 22, 2007 5:01 PM
I'd like to use some of my old effects. Is that possible?

Spyrofunk
Reply #33 Sunday, December 23, 2007 3:33 AM

Another cool feature would be to be able to allow to put "in-between" animations to go from one cursor to the other
This is a feature of the cursor, not the engine. Many do jsut like you describe.






Can you point me to an example?

As far as I know, if you want to do that in the actual cursor animations you'll need to include it as frames, and that means at some point you'll get some unwanted morph in the cursor if you wait enough.

Now, what I mean is a truly "intelligent" engine, where developer can put "morph from horizontal arrow to cursor", "morph from vetical resize arrow to cursor", "morph from cursor to help cursor" (and viceversa) "morph from cursor to busy cursor, and viceversa"...etc....so the developer can add as many morphing animations as he wants, to make it a true cool eye candy experience.

I think CursorFX has the potential, and is it's main purpose after all, I personally think it will be truly something new and cool to see.


Maybe you can do sort of that by using the effects section, but that leaves the actual cursor visible along with the effect right?

thanks.

Spyrofunk
Reply #34 Sunday, December 23, 2007 3:39 AM

"CursorFX Plus Upgrade
Price: $9.95
All current CursorXP Plus users can upgrade to CursorFX Plus for a special price.


Things at Stardock are really becoming a big joke ...   




Well man, ten dollars is little money...and development efforts cost money, or do you works for free?...It's fair considering you were an actual cursorXP user, I had to pay the full price for it.

Think of it as a support for new cool things in CursorFX.

Neil Banfield
Reply #35 Sunday, December 23, 2007 11:29 AM

neophil78: Why is charging an upgrade fee a joke?

We charge for upgrades between major releases of most of our apps.  Many companies do the same thing.  If I purchased Windows XP in 2005 I did not get a free upgrade to Windows Vista in 2007.


Cavan1
Reply #36 Sunday, December 23, 2007 11:45 AM
I'm assuming that means all current CXP Plus subscribers (purchased within the last year).


CursorXP Plus user since 2005, just upgraded for $9.95.

Moletai
Reply #37 Tuesday, December 25, 2007 5:11 PM
Some included cursors such as Platinum and Phoenix are very nice indeed, but text select do not work well with them, in that position cursor is a little below what is needed. So when doing for instance copy/paste, it is easily possible to paste not in the line you need do this, but in the line above. That's not good...

Spyrofunk
Reply #38 Monday, December 31, 2007 4:58 AM
Cursor preview should have grey background instead of white, or better if you make that optional

Spyrofunk
Reply #39 Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:15 PM
I wish mouse trails could be better...for instance, I did a simple quick fading dot that draws a trail in the tip of my cursor. (almost visible very elegant)

The thing is, the trail is always drawn using the samplerate of the monitor/mouse, so I get dots when I move quickly.

It could be very very very cool if we can use some sort of realtime trail render engine that makes fading lines as I move the cursor, pretty much as those Flash animations where you draw things using your mouse.

There is some game using this, can't remember which one, I guess it was world of warcraft, but I'm not sure.

Currently, the trail effects and the overall feature is almost useless for me. And considering we all have powerful video cards, it shoudln't be a problem generating small trail flare transitions in realtime.

Spyrofunk
Reply #40 Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:18 PM
Someone suggested Motion Blur also...that could be very cool too.

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