Mouse cursor in AOD

[adfs]

As we know, AOD has changed the rendering engine from 1.11.
If I understand correctly, was the mouse cursor changed from a software cursor to a hardware cursor? I just feel it is very smooth compared with the previous AOD versions and DH which are still using DirectDraw. Feel great!

 

[Czarina Julie]

No change to the cursor, but when Lennart went from DirectX to SDL2 that might have had some part in the smooth cursor.

From SDL's site:

"Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D"​

 

[Zamensis]

I can confirm something has changed, but in what version I couldn't tell.
In 1.08 you can edit the "cursor_(in)active.bmp" files to your liking, in 1.12 it has no effect.
Another thing regarding the interface: in 1.08 the message boxes were still partly transparent, not in 1.12.