[pygame] mouse.set_visible() fails on mac os x in fullscreen mode if...

[Aaron Geller <aaronsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Note: This post concerns tests run on Mac OS X 10.4 with pygame 1.7.0  
(from http://pythonmac.org/packages/) and debian linux unstable with  
pygame 1.7.1-release.

In general, if you call pygame.mouse.set_visible() before pygame.init 
(), you get this error:

pygame.error: video system not initialized

On the mac, when running in fullscreen mode, if you call  
pygame.mouse.set_visible(False) AFTER pygame.init() but BEFORE  
pygame.display.set_mode(), you get no error, but the following combo:  
the call fails, but the system doesn't know that it did, i.e. it  
thinks the mouse-pointer is off.  So subsequent calls to  
pygame.mouse.set_visible(False) also fail since they're ignored  
(unless you precede them with pygame.mouse.set_visible(True), in  
which case they work).

On linux the call succeeds.  This makes me think that its not working  
on the mac is a bug, not merely the absence of an error message.

Best,
Aaron Geller