Hi all,

I am developing an application that runs on a 8" touch screen using fltk 1.1.

In my application I create two Fl_Group: main_group which is the main interface, containing only buttons and some labels; help_group which has an exit button and a Fl_Help_View widget which loads an external html file. When the main window shows (with main_group being visible and help_group hidden), I use the following code to hide mouse cursor from Xorg:
fl_cursor(FL_CURSOR_NONE, FL_BLACK, FL_WHITE)
This works as expected --- no black cross cursor shows on the screen. But as soon as I activate the help_group, the mouse cursor appears, and it won't go away even I go back to the main_group [ by main_group->show(); help_group->hide() ] , the mouse cursor remains on the screen. I can make the cursor disappear after going back to the main_group by calling the same fl_cursor() above after help_group->hide(). But the cursor still remains on help_group whenever help_group is made visible. I think the the problem is caused by Fl_Group_View but I don't know if it's posible to make the cursor disappear completely. Any suggestions/help is appreaciated.

OK maybe my question is too complicated. Let me simplify it to:
How can I make cursor invisible in Fl_Help_View?

After looking at the source code of Fl_Help_View, I came up with this (not quite perfect yet) solution:



It makes the cursor disappear completely -- that's exactly what I want. But links in the Fl_Help_View window are no longer working since I cannot call the private Fl_Help_View::handle(e) method in the subclass. I don't know why Fl_Help_View makes handle() private [ it's the case in both fltk 1.1 and fltk2 ] because I have worked with Fl_Button, Fl_Box and handle() is defined as public in them.