Mouse Shadow?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

I've got the mouse shadow. I DON'T have Quartz Extreme... specs on my system are in the sig. I don't notice any kind of slowing down because of the shadow. Tried to take a snapshot, both with Shift-Command-3 and with Grab, but the mouse pointer doesn't show up at all with Shift-Command-3 and Grab takes the shadow off the pointer... ah well, you're just gonna have to trust me on this one...

[Rhino_G3]

With such a visible feature you'd think that this would be documented somewhere. I'm going to find out what it is!

[Rhino_G3]

This is all I've found so far...

Taken from http://www.macbuyersguide.com/softwa...MacOSX10-2.htm

The "beach ball" busy system indicator has an "aquafied" appearance, and the mouse pointer has a drop shadow, at least on systems supporting "Quartz Extreme" OpenGL acceleration of user interface elements.

http://www.swssoftware.com/other/jaguar/jaguar1.html

The mouse cursor does not have the drop-shadow that has been touted on other websites. I do not yet know if this is because it might rely on Quartz Extreme (which is not supported on the Pismo PowerBooks) or if it didn’t make the cut for the final release of Jaguar, or if there is some other reason. I will investigate this further.

Later he said

[PowerBook G3] I think I may have confirmed that the shadow does not appear on the mouse cursor because the Pismo does not support Quartz Extreme.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Well, I can assure you that they're mistaken in assuming that the cursor drop-shadow is a Quartz Extreme indicator. My mouse pointer has the shadow on both the monitor connected to a PCI Radeon 7000 (32MB) card AND the monitor connected to the stock PCI Rage 128 (16MB) card.

I have not found one definitive answer to the cursor drop-shadow phenomenon. I do not think... in fact I am almost positive... that it indicated Quartz Extreme, simply because Quartz Extreme is NOT enabled on my system, and I verified this with the "QuartzExtremeChecker" software available on versiontracker.com.

Perhaps it is an indication that you have a graphics card with 32MB of RAM, therefore, you have the "recommended" setup for Quartz Extreme, regardless of whether your card is PCI or AGP or whether or not Quartz Extreme is actually enabled.

[Rhino_G3]

That's kinda what I was wondering about as well... either a specified amount of VRAM or a specific system speed.

[twister]

Maybe it has to do with how much memory your computer has or if it was a clean install.

Who knows.

Twister

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Howabout processor type? I've got a G4 -- it's got the shadow. I've heard of people with iBooks (G3) that DON'T have the shadow...

Anyone with a G3 that's got the shadow or a G4 that doesn't?

Edit: Nevermind. I just re-read this thread and found that Twister has a G4 that doesn't have the shadow... I'm curious -- is it a stock G4/450 machine or some older machine that's been upgraded?

[boi]

when i put my cursor on top of some colors i can't see the shadow at all, but on top of other (lighter) colors, i can see it. maybe everyone has it, just not everyone sees it.