Loading a movie somehow brings up the mouse cursor in fullscreen mode

Coding
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Hi folks,

I wonder if anyone has run into a similar issue and if there is an easy solution. The following script worked just fine when you launch it from the command line. However, if I load it into Coder and run it, the mouse cursor would show up when loading the movie file. It looks like movie loading and the GUI is interacting in an unexpected way.

Thanks,

Zhiguo

import sys
import os
from psychopy import visual, core, event, monitors
from psychopy.constants import STOPPED, PLAYING, FINISHED

scn_width, scn_height = (1920, 1080)

mon = monitors.Monitor('myMonitor', width=53.0, distance=70.0)
mon.setSizePix((scn_width, scn_height))
win = visual.Window((scn_width, scn_height),
                    fullscr=True,
                    monitor=mon,
                    winType='pyglet',
                    units='pix',
                    color=(-0.094, -0.094, -0.094),
                    allowStencil=False)
win.mouseVisible = False


core.wait(3)


mov = visual.MovieStim3(win, filename=r'./jwpIntro.mov')

while (mov.status is not FINISHED):
    # draw movie frames
    mov.draw()
    win.flip()

win.close()
core.quit()
2

I think the window somehow lost focus when PsychoPy started loading the video file.

3

I’ve noticed the same thing sometimes, not just with moviestim3. I need to investigate more and create a github issue if I can find a pattern.