LanSchool 8.0 Mouse Cursor

[gwendes]

After 'upgrading' from 7.7 we've found that the mouse cursor is no longer visible from the teacher's station. This is really important to our ICT staff, anyone know how we can add this functionality back *crosses fingers for a simple registry entry*

[LanSchoolUK_Adam]

Hi gwendes,

 

There is indeed a registry fix for this - LanSchool 7 and LanSchool 8 use different methods of broadcasting; it seems the cursor is visible on the old method but not the new - will be raised up to dev to get it added back in

 

In the meantime, you can restore it with the following keys (just tested in-house and can confirm that it works, screenshot attached).

 

UseLegacyRemoteControl (displays the cursor in both 'View' and 'Remote Control' sessions)

UseLegacyShow (displays the cursor in 'Show Teacher' and 'Show Student' sessions)

 

 

32-bit:

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\LanSchool\

Values (DWORD 32):

UseLegacyRemoteControl = 1

UseLegacyShow = 1

 

64-bit:

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\LanSchool\

Values (DWORD 32):

UseLegacyRemoteControl = 1

UseLegacyShow = 1

 

 

[gwendes]

Perfect. Thank you.

One of our ICT teachers spoke to stoneware and they gave incorrect information that this feature might be available in future versions and we should revert to 7.7! I thought I was really in for it!

[LanSchoolUK_Adam]

Apologies for any misinformation provided - the predator drones have been deployed as per corporate directive.

[gwendes]

Apologies for any misinformation provided - the predator drones have been deployed as per corporate directive.

 

Nice one. You win the internet for today.