XNA – Displaying Cursor

XNA doesn’t automatically show a mouse pointer within the game window. First, you need a position for your mouse. You’ll also need a 2d texture to display as your mouse pointer

It’s very simple, just load a png image, and displaying it using spriteBatch.Draw();

Of course, we always keep track the mouse position =]

Here’s the code :

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Audio;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GamerServices;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Net;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Storage;

namespace MouseDisplay
{
    public class Game1 : Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game
    {
        GraphicsDeviceManager graphics;
        SpriteBatch spriteBatch;

        Texture2D m_mouseTexture;

        Vector2 m_mousePos;

        public Game1()
        {
            graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager(this);
            Content.RootDirectory = "Content";
        }

        protected override void Initialize()
        {
            m_mousePos = Vector2.Zero;

            // load the image
            m_mouseTexture = Content.Load<Texture2D>("cur");

            base.Initialize();
        }

        protected override void LoadContent()
        {
            // Create a new SpriteBatch, which can be used to draw textures.
            spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(GraphicsDevice);
        }

        protected override void UnloadContent()
        {
            // TODO: Unload any non ContentManager content here
        }

        protected override void Update(GameTime gameTime)
        {
            // Allows the game to exit
            if (GamePad.GetState(PlayerIndex.One).Buttons.Back == ButtonState.Pressed)
                this.Exit();

            // where is the mouse position now ???
            MouseState mouseState = Mouse.GetState();
            m_mousePos.X = mouseState.X;
            m_mousePos.Y = mouseState.Y;

            base.Update(gameTime);
        }

        protected override void Draw(GameTime gameTime)
        {
            graphics.GraphicsDevice.Clear(Color.CornflowerBlue);

            spriteBatch.Begin();

            // draw cursor
            spriteBatch.Draw(m_mouseTexture, m_mousePos, null, Color.White, 0f,
                    Vector2.Zero, 1.0f, SpriteEffects.None, 0f);
            spriteBatch.End();

            base.Draw(gameTime);
        }
    }
}

Download complete C# Project :
http://www.ziddu.com/download/5519009/MouseDisplay.zip.html