Mighty Mouse Cursors

In this thread, http://forums.macnn.com/showthread....50&pagenumber=2
, Phoenix mentions a program he wrote called Premultiplier that he said can both premultiply or unpremultiply an image.

http://users.wpi.edu/~phoenix/software/premult.sit

You just predivide

edit: make that postdivide

Quick update - the premultiplying issue is fixed for next release, so don't work too hard on an interim solution.

Basically, I'd read Apple's documentation wrong and thought that Cocoa never used premultiplied images, when the case was actually that Cocoa [/b]always[/b] uses premultiplied images. ThemePark also had this problem, and is also fixed.

Ok, here are previews of two cursors I'm creating. I'll release them asap, just want some feedback first. What I should change...where I should go with the idea, etc...

APM (Apple Pro mouse)



This cursor is right handed. Might make a white version. What do you think of the red highlight? For the wait cursor, I might make the Apple glow/pulsate.

Puck



This cursor is both left and right handed. Will make other colour variations. For the wait cursor, it'll spin.

Also, I might release a Logitech optical red mouse...since that's the mouse I use .

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dace:
[B]Ok, here are previews of two cursors I'm creating. I'll release them asap, just want some feedback first. What I should change...where I should go with the idea, etc...

This cursor is right handed. Might make a white version. What do you think of the red highlight? For the wait cursor, I might make the Apple glow/pulsate.

This cursor is both left and right handed. Will make other colour variations. For the wait cursor, it'll spin.

Way Cool! I think pulsating is a great idea! Definitely a white version! Can't wait for the finished product.

That's very nice. It wouldn't make sense if you add both shadow and optical red light together. Better choose one of them. The white border could be slightly transparent.

I'd love to try it out

Apple pro mouse is very nice. not sure if i second what was said about choosing either drop shadow or red throb, but it is definitley a good point. my suggestion tho' is to probably stick with the red optic glow and have extend out to where the cord is and and have it make a red pointer. the sniped cord just isn't right. kill it!

Nice images, but where's the "hot spot" for the cursor? I suppose with the APM it could be the tip of the cut off mouse cable, but with the Puck, I have no idea what part of it I would click with.

This thread is a temple of taste and decency compaired to the Mighty Mouse section at resexcellence ugh some of theose creations are ugly, imagine looking at them all day.

Wow, MightyMouse is such a step up from BeachBall, although that program was awesome back in the day as well. One thing that I miss from the earlier days was the Graphite spinning ball that beachball provided us with, now i have neither the knowhow nor the talent, but if someone needed an idea of something to realease, something as simple as just the graphite spinning ball would please many people keep up the good work guys, the cursors are awesome

I figured since the actual puck mouse was so popular for being confusing, I thought I'd make the cursor just as confusing. The hot spot is in the center It's not hard to use, just a bit confusing since everyone is use to having a tip as the hot spot.

I have now converted 7 of my wait cursors to MightyMouse. Get them here!

The new site design is nice Max

Heh - crazy. I was just using those last night to test the premultiplication fixes in my development version of Mighty Mouse. I didn't know they were yours - very nice!

The "Spinning Radiation" cursor in the MM release is my bad copy of your nice one, done because I liked it and didn't know who'd done the original.

awesome job max, those are some sharp lookin icons.

Yeah, they are mine. I had access to the beta of Jaguar so I extracted them


Swiz - glad you like the design, I wasn't so sure it would look good.

What about your XP Cursor that I could never get to work with Beachball? You made that, correct?

How about cursor makeovers for your themes also... ie milk

Yeah I have a XP cursors too, as I wrote "More cursors to come..."
I also have a StarCraft cursor in the works.
Yeah theme cursors might be cool, I'll think about that too.

Just made my first set



The blue section in the middle is 50% transparent. Works quite nicely compared to the standard black Mac cursor. Get it here

Bravo GFive!! I am using your super classy crusor set right now. Keep up the good work.