Framebuffer cursor support in µGFX?

[Josh Sanford]

Does µGFX have the ability to display a cursor (a.k.a. a mouse pointer) to track the mouse?  I am currently testing µGFX in Raw32 mode, using a Linux framebuffer for GDisplay and input from a USB mouse for GMouse.  µGFX is receiving the mouse movement and button presses correctly, but isn't displaying any cursor.  (Under X11 the cursor was of course provided by X11 itself.)

After looking through the code, it appears to me that neither µGFX nor the Linux kernel provide any cursor support for framebuffers.  Can anybody confirm that, or offer any recommendations?  I can try blitting my own cursor, but would prefer to use existing capabilities if any are available.

[Joel Bodenmann]

Hello Josh and welcome to the community!

We can confirm that µGFX currently doesn't provide any cursor support. However, that feature is planned for µGFX 3.0 which we started working on a couple of weeks ago. So right now you have to implement it yourself.

[Josh Sanford]

Thanks Joel.  Is there any anticipated timeline for 3.0?

[inmarket]

No. We work on it as we have spare time.

We are currently in the api design and proof of concept stage.

When the api design is largely complete we will release the doco for public comment.

 

[Josh Sanford]

Understood.  Thank you for the information.