Mouse Cursors on Tkinter

[Mauricio Inforçati]

Hi,

How can I change my mouse cursor to an own file.cur cursor?

I tried setting "cursor" option to the file(widget['cursor']='file.cur'), to a pointer of this file (@widget['cursor']='file.cur'), to a Image instance of this cursor and none of this options worked.

What can I do?

[Jeff Epler]

Here is a small program that works on my system (linux/X11)to change
the cursor of a Tkinter window:
import Tkinter

t = Tkinter.Tk()
t.configure(cursor=("@/usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/star",
"/usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/starMask", "white", "black"))
t.mainloop()

As noted in the tk8.3 Tk_GetCursor manpage, this "will not work on
Windows or Macintosh computers".

Jeff

[Jørgen Cederberg]

Hi

actually you _can_ change the cursor on Windows computers:

from Tkinter import *
root = Tk()
root.configure(cursor='spraycan')
root.mainloop()

This will show a spraycan (quite ugly though) in the window.

The names of the cursors can be found in "Tkinter reference: A GUI for
Python", located at http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/lang/python/tkinter.html

Regards
Jorgen Cederberg

[Jørgen Cederberg]

Jørgen Cederberg wrote:
> Hi
>
> actually you _can_ change the cursor on Windows computers:
>
> from Tkinter import *
> root = Tk()
> root.configure(cursor='spraycan')
> root.mainloop()
>
> This will show a spraycan (quite ugly though) in the window.
>
> The names of the cursors can be found in "Tkinter reference: A GUI for
> Python", located at http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/lang/python/tkinter.html
>
> Regards
> Jorgen Cederberg
>

Mr. Cederberg: Well Jorgen, you better wake up before answering any
newsgroups postings. The OP asked for his _own_ cursors.

Jorgen Cederberg: Gee I'm really sorry, I'll try to remember that. And I
don't know how to do that on a windows machine.

Regards
Jorgen Cederberg

[Eric Brunel]

The same manpage ( http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.3/TkLib/GetCursor.htm#M9 ) shows a
form (t.configure(cursor="@/path/to/file.cur")) that works on Windows. You just
have to define your cursor in a .cur or .ani file; you can do that with Visual
Studio for example.

On Macintosh's, the form t.configure(cursor="name") works for all cursors
defined as resources of type crsr or CURS (see the same manpage, a few
paragraphs above: http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.3/TkLib/GetCursor.htm#M6 )

HTH
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