32 bpp cursors?

[Duane Clark]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4273 points to a
> patch set that implements 32 bit per pixel cursors
> and a bunch of other cursor stuff.
> 
> Looks like the patch got dropped by the author, though,
> and since it makes server changes, it's going to be hard
> to get past Alexandre.
> 
> Is anyone interested in picking this up?

Well, no server changes are needed just to implement 32 bits per pixel. 
There are rather simple changes needed in the file 
dlls/winex11.drv/mouse.c in create_cursor(), and the places that need to 
be changed are cleverly marked by "switch (ptr->bBitsPerPixel)" ;)

I tried installing Google Sketchup, but could not get that to install. 
That said, it looks like 32 bit pixels use 8 bits each of RGB, plus an 
extra 8 bits of "alpha" (which apparently controls transparency). So 
probably you could duplicate the 24 bit case, read out the extra 8 bits 
and just throw them away for now. Standard X cursors don't support 
alpha, AFAIK.