CursorFX doesn't work with CursorXP cursors.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 by TOMPCpl | Discussion: CursorFX
I am using CursorFX and i wanted to use CursorXP cursors, so i open one and nothing happens. Please fix it! I don't want to import all cursors in animation editor! 
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angus1949
Reply #22 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 4:00 PM
Have done this. Files are in all of the proper locations but nothing shows up in the FX control panel. Would like to have a load package button like icon packager, where you can download from web or from disk. I can't get it to work at all. I just installed the now update today.
Reply #22 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 4:00 PM
I can confirm.
Neither will self install during download.
Neither will install using a doubleclick.
To install .cursorfx I just manually move to the appropriate directory
To install .curXPTheme I open in the "New Package" dialog and saveas .cursorfx then move to the appropriate directory.
Neither will self install during download.
Neither will install using a doubleclick.
To install .cursorfx I just manually move to the appropriate directory
To install .curXPTheme I open in the "New Package" dialog and saveas .cursorfx then move to the appropriate directory.
Have done this. Files are in all of the proper locations but nothing shows up in the FX control panel. Would like to have a load package button like icon packager, where you can download from web or from disk. I can't get it to work at all. I just installed the now update today.
BasketWeaver
Reply #23 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 4:08 PM
Reply #23 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 4:08 PM
This is dumb or what? Having to jump through hoops like this! To get cursor xp working with cursor fx. Average person is going to say heck with it and go back to cursor xp..... Love Cursor fx, but come on now!
killajosh
Reply #24 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 4:10 PM
Reply #24 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 4:10 PM
I just right-click the cursorXP theme, choose 'open with', and choose CFX. That works for me.......
BigDogBigFeet
Reply #25 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 4:17 PM
killajosh, if I am not mistaken that method does not work with CursorFX Free version. It does not work on my machine and several others who have posted have confirmed this. Do you have CursorFX Plus?
Reply #25 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 4:17 PM
I just right-click the cursorXP theme, choose 'open with', and choose CFX. That works for me.......
killajosh, if I am not mistaken that method does not work with CursorFX Free version. It does not work on my machine and several others who have posted have confirmed this. Do you have CursorFX Plus?
angus1949
Reply #26 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 5:57 PM
Reply #26 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 5:57 PM
Backed up my cursor themes, uninstalled both CFXPlus and CXPPlus, restarted, cleared all old folders and shortcuts and restarted again. Reinstalled CXPPlus and put my backed up themes in the themes folder and all is well with the world again. CXP for me, for now. By the way, I'm an XP user until they don't support it anymore, so I guess I really don't need CFX anyway. Nice looking product though.
Daiwa
Reply #27 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 7:38 PM
Reply #27 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 7:38 PM
Doesn't seem to work with CursorFX cursors here, either, I'm afraid. On XPP SP2.
I'm waiting for some direction from SD about the proper method of installation. There is nothing in the install routine (I used SDC, BTW) that prompts you to do anything - it just installs. No information in the History link. No information in the Online Guide that is linked in the About pane of CursorFX Control Panel.
I assumed, correctly as it turned out, that the theme files had been moved to D&S\All Users... and copied all my .curXPtheme files into the new directory. When I launched CFX, they were all there in the list. Only problem is, none of the themes will "Apply" - clicking that button does nothing, the cursor set remains unchanged. I can fiddle with the attributes & they will all get "applied" to the preview, but that's as far as things get.
I had CXP Plus installed & active at the time of the CFX Plus install. The CXP theme I was using is still active - I can toggle between it & the Windows default theme using Ctrl-Shift-C without any problem but I cannot get any other theme to apply, whether .cursorFX or .curXPtheme.
I've been around SD products & loved them for a long, long time. I don't think this app was ready for release, even as a beta, without clear instructions on how to upgrade from CXP.
Looking forward to a release that addresses these issues.
I'm waiting for some direction from SD about the proper method of installation. There is nothing in the install routine (I used SDC, BTW) that prompts you to do anything - it just installs. No information in the History link. No information in the Online Guide that is linked in the About pane of CursorFX Control Panel.
I assumed, correctly as it turned out, that the theme files had been moved to D&S\All Users... and copied all my .curXPtheme files into the new directory. When I launched CFX, they were all there in the list. Only problem is, none of the themes will "Apply" - clicking that button does nothing, the cursor set remains unchanged. I can fiddle with the attributes & they will all get "applied" to the preview, but that's as far as things get.
I had CXP Plus installed & active at the time of the CFX Plus install. The CXP theme I was using is still active - I can toggle between it & the Windows default theme using Ctrl-Shift-C without any problem but I cannot get any other theme to apply, whether .cursorFX or .curXPtheme.
I've been around SD products & loved them for a long, long time. I don't think this app was ready for release, even as a beta, without clear instructions on how to upgrade from CXP.
Looking forward to a release that addresses these issues.
ALMonty
Reply #28 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 8:41 PM
I think the problem people are having is CXP has to be uninstalled (save your themes first) before CFX is installed. I have CFX Plus running on 3 machines (Vista Ultimate,Vista Home Prem and XP Pro)and it runs flawlessly on all three. I dl a theme no matter if it's a .curxptheme or a .cursorfx file and click on the file I get a window that says:
Theme copied into theme common folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes
Do you want to make the selected theme the current theme?
Reply #28 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 8:41 PM
I had CXP Plus installed & active at the time of the CFX Plus install. The CXP theme I was using is still active
I think the problem people are having is CXP has to be uninstalled (save your themes first) before CFX is installed. I have CFX Plus running on 3 machines (Vista Ultimate,Vista Home Prem and XP Pro)and it runs flawlessly on all three. I dl a theme no matter if it's a .curxptheme or a .cursorfx file and click on the file I get a window that says:
Theme copied into theme common folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes
Do you want to make the selected theme the current theme?
Nimbin
Reply #29 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 8:46 PM
i have cursor XP and cursor FX both installed on my computer, i use cursor FX and have no problems running it or any cursor xp theme with it. all i did was open up cursor xp and clicked disable all, went into msconfig and unchecked the box to run cursor xp on startup, then loaded cursor fx applied my cursor and made sure that it was set to run on windows start. everythijng works perfectly.
Reply #29 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 8:46 PM
I think the problem people are having is CXP has to be uninstalled (save your themes first) before CFX is installed.
i have cursor XP and cursor FX both installed on my computer, i use cursor FX and have no problems running it or any cursor xp theme with it. all i did was open up cursor xp and clicked disable all, went into msconfig and unchecked the box to run cursor xp on startup, then loaded cursor fx applied my cursor and made sure that it was set to run on windows start. everythijng works perfectly.
Daiwa
Reply #30 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 9:06 PM
Reply #30 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 9:06 PM
With apologies to SD, CursorFX is now working normally after a reboot. Each profile I use required a reboot to get it to work. Should have thought of that, I suppose.
ALMonty
Reply #31 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 9:09 PM
Reply #31 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 9:09 PM
Nimbin that's the smart way to have both installed without any conflicts. But as Daiwa stated he had CXP installed and running when he installed CFX. Now that would cause a big conflict. Both programs trying to run at the same time.
BigCigarDaddy
Reply #32 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 9:13 PM
Reply #32 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 9:13 PM
I took the time to read What U Guys Suggested. I manually installed The CursorXP to the new directory and it works fine. Thanks Guys
ALMonty
Reply #33 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 9:14 PM
Reply #33 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 9:14 PM
Both Vista machines ask me to reboot but XP didn't ask. I just rebooted anyway.
arcturus13
Reply #34 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 9:40 PM
Reply #34 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 9:40 PM
I have now installed and uninstalled FX 3 times, to be clear it works OK with the cursors that come with it, but for me XP themes have to be dumped into the theme folder and I lost them all in having to uninstall XP.
Zargon0225 says the themes go into %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes
but for me it is in Allusers>shared documents>stardock>cursorFX>themes.....
Zargon0225 says the themes go into %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes
but for me it is in Allusers>shared documents>stardock>cursorFX>themes.....
angus1949
Reply #35 Thursday, February 7, 2008 9:02 AM
I think the problem people are having is CXP has to be uninstalled (save your themes first) before CFX is installed. I have CFX Plus running on 3 machines (Vista Ultimate,Vista Home Prem and XP Pro)and it runs flawlessly on all three. I dl a theme no matter if it's a .curxptheme or a .cursorfx file and click on the file I get a window that says:
Theme copied into theme common folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes
Do you want to make the selected theme the current theme?
ALMonty's fix quoted above seems to be the best solution so far, except you may have to search under All Users, either Application Data/Stardock or under Shared Douments/Stardock to find your cursor library. I don't understand why Stardock's software seems to put things all over the place, and not even the same places on all machines. During installations it gives you no ability to change directories or even a window showing where things are going. I love my SD programs, but these are problems, especially for us newbies. A little more pre-installation documentation would be nice, like a "MustReadMe.txt" file right on the download pages, giving any information about any special installation quirks. I didn't even know about installing programs through SDC when I first bought them.
ps: always re-boot after any of these installations just to be safe.
Reply #35 Thursday, February 7, 2008 9:02 AM
I had CXP Plus installed & active at the time of the CFX Plus install. The CXP theme I was using is still active
I think the problem people are having is CXP has to be uninstalled (save your themes first) before CFX is installed. I have CFX Plus running on 3 machines (Vista Ultimate,Vista Home Prem and XP Pro)and it runs flawlessly on all three. I dl a theme no matter if it's a .curxptheme or a .cursorfx file and click on the file I get a window that says:
Theme copied into theme common folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes
Do you want to make the selected theme the current theme?
ALMonty's fix quoted above seems to be the best solution so far, except you may have to search under All Users, either Application Data/Stardock or under Shared Douments/Stardock to find your cursor library. I don't understand why Stardock's software seems to put things all over the place, and not even the same places on all machines. During installations it gives you no ability to change directories or even a window showing where things are going. I love my SD programs, but these are problems, especially for us newbies. A little more pre-installation documentation would be nice, like a "MustReadMe.txt" file right on the download pages, giving any information about any special installation quirks. I didn't even know about installing programs through SDC when I first bought them.
ps: always re-boot after any of these installations just to be safe.
Zargon
Reply #36 Friday, February 8, 2008 8:59 AM
Reply #36 Friday, February 8, 2008 8:59 AM
The latest build (2.00.004) now resolves the issue with CursorXP cursors not loading into CursorFX on download or double click. Thanks for your feedback on this issue.
DorkCoffeez
Reply #37 Friday, February 8, 2008 10:56 AM
Reply #37 Friday, February 8, 2008 10:56 AM
Just for verification purposes if you are having troubles still with CursorFX please make sure you have updated to the latest 2.04 release AND that you have CXP uninstalled. If you can reproduce an error you are getting please start a ticket with us at [email protected] explaining the error, how to reproduce it, and what your system stats +OS versions are. I will be more than happy to test out each situation and report it up for you.
fontinalis
Reply #38 Friday, February 8, 2008 11:36 AM
Reply #38 Friday, February 8, 2008 11:36 AM
Seabass, did SD update the free version also?
I just downloaded it and did the uninstall/reboot/ran reg mechanic/reinstall and still have the transpanrency issue I posted here: See Post #70 WWW Link
Also, the free version only says version 2.00 on the about page. I'll post a ticker on support for this transparency issue.
I just downloaded it and did the uninstall/reboot/ran reg mechanic/reinstall and still have the transpanrency issue I posted here: See Post #70 WWW Link
Also, the free version only says version 2.00 on the about page. I'll post a ticker on support for this transparency issue.
fontinalis
Reply #39 Friday, February 8, 2008 11:48 AM
Reply #39 Friday, February 8, 2008 11:48 AM
FYI Seabass I just put a ticket in #ODB-355055. Thanks. f
Philly0381
Reply #40 Friday, February 8, 2008 11:48 AM
Reply #40 Friday, February 8, 2008 11:48 AM
I can confirm also that downloading of cursors in FX has been fixed. I have the plus version and just downloaded a CXP skin and it loaded okay. 
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Reply #21 Wednesday, February 6, 2008 1:46 PM
Merged interface with mouse options(It's hard to find in Menu Start programs sometimes), faster tabbing(I don't need to wait 1-2 seconds to change tab).
You can also reset preview animation in CursorXP, and you can preview all states(Even the click ones).
Also i like to see automatic cursor change when running CursorXP or CursorFX file(Doesn't work), i like the editor for CursorFX, it's better for beginners(Now you can create hotspots by clicking on cursor for clicked state).