CursorFX Beta 1 Feedback and Feature requests

Effects are sweet.  How about an easy way to recolor them?

That's a feature of the Premium ($19.95) package, not the free one, Zubaz.  (:( 

Might be nice to have a way to shift the angle of the pointer from the X to Y and Z axes with a little 'jogger' type control...  

I wish you could have access to the click effects of the free version. That would be such a great improvement on the program. I don't really need all of them. Just one. And yeah to be able to recolor would be awesome, too.

When you try to adjust something that is in the Plus version only, it just fades to the about screen with a very hard-to-spot "Plus Only" text that shows. It should really just be greyed out with (Plus Only) next to the title. I thought it was a bug until a few minutes later i spotted the Plus Only yellow text come up.

Just a few things..

When using the free version, make an additional window that allows the user to turn on the click-able effects so they can see how they'll work. Once you click outside of that box you can't use them unless you purchase the plus version. The free version should also allow you to change the color of your cursor but u cannot apply it, once you hit apply then it should take you to the Buy Plus page. I for one installed the Free version to see how well it would run on my Vista machine at this point and thus I can see why some people get upset that they can't at least have a small window to mess with the effects so they can at least feel what they are like. Just seeing them move on the effects page doesn't really help.

As for Plus (which I did purchase, with my XP discount thanks for that!), the colors section should contain a dropdown box for color choices such as Inverted, Custom and so forth. A color pallet or wheel would also come in handy as I know some who find the slider a bit too confusing/restrictive, also the use of a gradient color scheme would be fun as well. This version should also contain a light effect section, since vista has the light effects on the windows, add that effect to cursors. This would allow for more customization but also have a little more glossy/glass feel to the cursors. Not to mention if you could change the lighting colors so say when you move toward the bottom of the screen the light changes to green or blue and then move to the top and it changes to yellow or orange. I did read something about a similar feature so this might already be talked about, wasn't sure.

Also no matter which version Plus or Regular, the hotkey is very important and needs to be added back in.

Obviously I'm not a programmer, but I figured I'd toss out some suggestions.

It is a nice program so far, but there's definitely room for improvement as I see there are a lot of people who use or have used the XP version and see no real reason to upgrade to FX. Personally I can see their point to some extent, but 1 this is still beta, and 2 now you guys are asking for peoples requests which is awesome!

Happy Holidays to everyone out there in cyberspace!!

I'd like Bubblegum, OldSys and ProTools back into the default set

After rebooting everything seems to be working fine and considering buying it. I need to fool around with it more  

digital3000 ... those are VERY good ideas.

No real problems that I can see in the plus version, but a simple way to turn off the cursor shadow completely would be nice. To get rid of it now I have to manually position it to be hidden behind the cursor it self, takes a bit of time.

The funnest issue I met is that I can click the "New Package" to open the Theme Editor but after "save and apply", that theme is not listed in CursorFX Control Panel. Please add this feature soon, so I can add Ghost theme to the list.

Another request is that enabling easier navigation. Try every scroll bars in the Control Panel, you will find that you cannot keep clicking the arrows to scroll the bar (I do not like to release my finger). So please fix this strange behaviour too.

Can't seem to purchase the upgrade version from my registered Cursor XP Plus. Am I missing something here?

I'd like to see CFX get the ability to accept drag and drop from explorer to add new themes, especially if there's a large list of them.

When you put the Sharpness slider to the lowest setting it is actually sharpest

Trails please.

This might already be in the plans, but CFX should have the ability to specifically unload (or disable) from within the application (or maybe mouse control panel integration like CXP).

Right now, all the unloads I'm doing require death by task manager.

Good suggestion. However the current Ctrl+Shift+V key (will be customizable) is used exactly for toggling CFX on/off when necessary.

Does choosing the Windows default unload it (like Windowblindes does)?  Consistency counts 

Yes.

I didn't think of that

Getting the keyboard navigation working would be very useful for when the cursor disappears (even selecting the default windows cursor doesn't work in some cases, and only an unload/restart gets it back).

Cool.

It would be useful to have a tab in the app (or at least a text file) that tells us what all of the hot key values are

I'm guessing that since the hot keys will eventually be customizable, that tab will also show the defaults.

On the settings tab: Display a section of the current wallpaper so you can see what the cursor looks like in the "real" world opposed to the white background.

will this also get x64 support? also anybody trying it on Vista x64. right now I am using cursorxp plus on x64 and it works amazingly well.

Request:

Other buttons than LEFT or RIGHT support? also mousewheel support?

I can imagine it would be cool, when you move the mouse wheel the cursor changes into another animation (some arrows, or an actual mouse wheel with two moving arrows with alpha)

Talking about supporting other buttons, for example, one of the buttons in my mouse is configured to close any app, that's a good place to use that blue explosion animation, otherwise is too much cluttering to put it on the right or left button.

Another mouse button is configured to minimize apps, I think I can design some animation, I don't know a big red arrow moving towards the bottom, and fading out shortly, showing you've just minimized an app.

Another case, two other buttons are configured to go back/forward in webpages and windows, I can put a blue or red arrow pointing to the left or right and fading shortly, showing you've just moved back or forward.

that would be cool...


thanks!

Another cool feature would be to be able to allow to put "in-between" animations to go from one cursor to the other. Example, going from resize arrows to cursor. It would involve some sort of "intelligent" engine, that shows this or that in-between animations depending of which cursor you go from->to. (that way you can do morphs from cursors)

Another cool idea could be to implement an alpha blending crossfade between cursors, I can imagine a really quick crossfade will look fantastic!!!