Mouse Cursor

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Hi all…

I am having problem trying to change my cursor’s image, for example when the person do a mouse pressed the icon for the mouse will change but it just refuse to change… any recommended sites or examples which I can use to solve this problem?

Codes will help to… :stuck_out_tongue:

Cheers!

#2

Show us your code.

i believe its also dependant on your hadrware in that your hadrware needs to support different cursors. But most modern hardware should.

FInally tell us what your OS and pltform is.

#3

Try this code. Of course you will have to replace methodThatReturnsBufferedImage() with something that’s actually part of your code, but other than that you’re good to go.


BufferedImage cursor=methodThatReturnsBufferedImage();
Cursor myCursor= Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createCustomCursor(cursor,new Point(0,0),"");
setCursor(myCursor);

You might want to store a bunch of them as an array to call them up easily.
Oh, and one more thing, there’s a glitch on the Mac where the cursor goes back to normal after your window loses and recieves focus again. Add a FocusListener and when the window regains focus then reset the cursor to your custom cursor.
Happy Coding!

#4

Also, be careful which component you change the cursor for.

#5

Thanks… I am using Win XP on a Acer to do my programming.

Thanks… it was the component problem…

Cheers!