What does the "Hide pointer while typing" feature actually do?
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00:00 What Does The &Quot;Hide Pointer While Typing&Quot; Feature Actually Do?
01:30 Accepted Answer Score 22
02:18 Thank you
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
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The Hide pointer while typing feature does not do the work of hiding the pointer. All it does is set the value of the Mouse Vanish system parameter. This is a value that can be queried using the SystemParametersInfo() WIN32 API function passing the constant SPI_GETMOUSEVANISH.
Applications should query this parameter and, if the parameter is set to TRUE, hide the mouse pointer when there is typing.
A few applications honor this setting, for example the editor in the Eclipse IDE.
Most applications ignore it completely. Firefox 119 has added support for it, but Chromium-based browsers still ignore it.
Ironically quite a few Microsoft applications ignore the setting and hide the cursor anyway. For example Word 2010, and Notepad on Windows 10.