OS Window 10 and Windows 7 PsychoPy version V2021.1.2 Standard Standalone? (y/n) Yes What are you trying to achieve?: Trying to hide the mouse during routines What did you try to make it work?: 1 - I made sure the Show mouse check box in the screen settings was unchecked, and then I put win.…

[image] Anthony_Risuq: the desktop task bar also appears at the bottom of the screen when the trial loop begins I guess this means that you haven’t set the window to be full-screen in the experiment settings. Otherwise you can click on to other windows or parts of the operating and what you’r…

@Michael Thank you for your reply, however my task is set to full screen so this can not be the cause. I did test it once in a reduced window size before putting it back to full screen, but the mouse behaviour that I described was present before I did the reduced window size test. Can you see any …

[image] Anthony_Risuq: I put in a mouse component named “mouse” which the win.mouseVisible = False could act upon This is not necessary - win.mouseVisible = False is a method entirely of the Window class, no Mouse object is required. Having a mouse is likely part of the problem. [image] A…

@TParsons is this new behaviour? I don’t have an old version to test, but it seems that we are currently missing a few parameters from some Builder component GUIs. e.g. the Mouse component doesn’t provide an option to hide the mouse pointer. There will be times when the experimenter wants to just co…

Hello @Michael , Thank you again for your response. Each of the attempts I listed were mutually exclusive so that I would not be trying more than one approach at a time. Each attempt was based on solutions that worked for others that I found on the forum or on a google group which apparently preda…

You should post a minimal working example for us to examine.

Hello @Michael Here is a copy of the task for you to examine. Thank you. Anthony [Blank] Conditions.xlsx (8.6 KB) Lecture.psyexp (28.7 KB)

Hi Anthony, I was wondering if you could solve your problem because I have the same issue. I cannot hide the cursor. Sami

Hello Sami, For this particular experiment set up I ended up abandoning the use of Psychopy as I was not able to resolve this issue and the issue with the task bar showing up. Here are some code bits that might help you. The first one might be for online experiments and the second one for locally…

Thank you! I had the same problem but applying this code I could solve it. :laughing:

Unable to hide mouse pointer consistently

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mh105 May 16, 2024, 12:05am 19

Hopefully this helps:

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Unable to hide mouse pointer consistently

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