raylib: [rcore] `ShowCursor()` is not working properly

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Issue description

ShowCursor is not working properly, The cursor stays hidden.

Environment

Platform: Windows 11 22H2 (64-bit) IDE: Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Raylib: 5.0 from vcpkg

Code Example

#include "raylib.h"

int main()
{
    InitWindow(500, 500, "Cursor");

    HideCursor();
    ShowCursor();
    //EnableCursor(); // This works

    while(!WindowShouldClose()) {
        BeginDrawing();

        ClearBackground(DARKBLUE);

        EndDrawing();
    }

    CloseWindow();
    return 0;
}

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 7 months ago
Comments: 15 (5 by maintainers)

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I compiled both of @justgo97 examples using raylib 5.1-dev, VS 2022 17.8.2 Build Tools, the x64 Developer Command Prompt, and the VCrayApp-0.1.0 beta kit.

I confirm that all works as expected with the cursor toggling only inside the app window and not impacted elsewhere on the Windows 10 display. VCrayApp compiles raylib modules from raylib src/ and only links a few windows *.lib files besides the compiled raylib *.obj files and that seems to be consistent with the success that @justgo97 has achieved.

orcmid on Nov 30, 2023

@justgo97 @ubkp Ok, I think I know where could be the issue.

Are you including windows.h in some module? In what order are you linking the program libraries in Visual Studio?

Check in VS for your project: Properties > Linker > Input : Additional Dependencies

I got the following list in the following order:

raylib.lib;opengl32.lib;kernel32.lib;user32.lib;gdi32.lib;winmm.lib;winspool.lib;comdlg32.lib;advapi32.lib;shell32.lib;ole32.lib;oleaut32.lib;uuid.lib;odbc32.lib;odbccp32.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies)

raylib.lib should be linked before user32.lib.

raysan5 on Nov 30, 2023

@justgo97 I’m afraid I did not maintain the vcpkg, actually, never use it. Feel free to report the issue to the maintainers of the package. You can link with this issue.

raysan5 on Nov 30, 2023

@justgo97 @ubkp Ok, I think I know where could be the issue.

Are you including windows.h in some module? In what order are you linking the program libraries in Visual Studio?

Check in VS for your project: Properties > Linker > Input : Additional Dependencies

I got the following list in the following order:
raylib.lib;opengl32.lib;kernel32.lib;user32.lib;gdi32.lib;winmm.lib;winspool.lib;comdlg32.lib;advapi32.lib;shell32.lib;ole32.lib;oleaut32.lib;uuid.lib;odbc32.lib;odbccp32.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies)
raylib.lib should be linked before user32.lib.

Oh that’s definitely related to the problem. I’m not including windows.h anywhere. So it’s a linking issue, I don’t add raylib.lib to the linker input since vcpkg takes care of that I guess? But I’m not using a project from the examples folder from Raylib, I started an empty project in VS 2022 which it seems uses this list of libs:

Now I manually added the list of libraries after looking at an example project and everything is working fine:

raylib.lib;opengl32.lib;kernel32.lib;user32.lib;gdi32.lib;winmm.lib;winspool.lib;comdlg32.lib;advapi32.lib;shell32.lib;ole32.lib;oleaut32.lib;uuid.lib;odbc32.lib;odbccp32.lib;

I thought using vcpkg doesn’t need doing any manual setup but I guess I should use core_basic_window.vcxproj as a template next time

justgo97 on Nov 30, 2023

@justgo97 @raysan5 I was about to comment exactly that. I think if you’re including winuser.hit has a ShowCursor() which would be conflicting.

ghost on Nov 30, 2023

@justgo97 EnableCursor() is the exact same call of ShowCursor(). See L1002 and L988.

Can you compile raylib yourself with VS?

ghost on Nov 30, 2023

@justgo97 @raysan5 Cross-compiled it here for Win64 using Mingw. Sent the .exe to a friend which tested it on Windows 11 22H2 (64-bit). Everything worked correctly.

ghost on Nov 30, 2023