Grab cursors?

[graham.reeds]

This isn't related to GWT per se, but it is related to a project in
GWT.

GoogleMaps has drag hand cursors in both Windows (IE6/7) and FireFox.
However my searches of the web only comes back with lists of CSS2.1
cursors which don't have the grabby drag hands, and the proprietary -
moz-grab.

So how does Google implement the IE version since I can't find any
information about it on the web?

Thanks, Graham Reeds

[Peter Blazejewicz]

hi,

I think that is via custom url type:
.className{
cursor: url(pathToCurFile.cur);
}

hit "Search" in windows explorer and type ".cur",
you will find hundreds,
run "serach" againts your Temp-Int-Files folder and if you just
watched GMaps you will find Google cur files there,

regards,
Peter

[graham.reeds]

Okay. I'll have to take your word for it, but I have no cursors in my
Temporary Internet Files.

I'll look into custom cursors.

Thanks, G.

On Jan 10, 7:37 pm, Peter Blazejewicz <peter.blazejew...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Peter Blazejewicz]

hi Graham,
here you're:
http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/closedhand.cur
http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/openhand.cur
:D
regards,
Peter

[graham.reeds]

Thank you *very* much!

On Jan 10, 9:10 pm, Peter Blazejewicz <peter.blazejew...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> hi Graham,
> here you're:http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/closedhand.curhttp://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/openhand.cur

[graham.reeds]

Okay. Just done a bit of testing with this and while
DOM.setStyleAttribute(mouseListenerContainer.getElement(), "cursor",
"url(cursors/closedhand.cur)");
works in the hosted browser it doesn't work in IE or FF.
DOM.setStyleAttribute(mouseListenerContainer.getElement(), "cursor",
"url(\"cursors/closedhand.cur\"));
works in IE but not FF.
DOM.setStyleAttribute(mouseListenerContainer.getElement(), "cursor",
"url(\"cursors/closedhand.cur\"), default");
works in both IE and FF. Haven't test Opera or Safari.

Now, why doesn't the cursor stick in FF...

G.

On Jan 10, 10:05 pm, "graham.reeds" <graham.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you *very* much!
>
> On Jan 10, 9:10 pm, Peter Blazejewicz <peter.blazejew...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > hi Graham,

> > here you're:http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/closedhand.curhttp://www.g...

[Peter Blazejewicz]

hi,

url equals: GWT.getModuleBase()+"cursors/cursor.cur"

also just use .css classes and gwt addStyleName or
addStyleDependantName, that's easier to develop, you could create
static html for testing cursors without any code,

<div class="openhand">open</div>
<div class="closedhand">closed</div>

.closedhand {
cursor: url("./cursors/closedhand.cur");
}

.openhand {
cursor: url("./cursors/openhand.cur");
cursor: -moz-grab;
}


regards,
Peter

[Christian Wolf]

I use

DOM.setStyleAttribute(getElement(),"cursor", "url(\"images/grabbing.cur
\"),move");

and it works.

what do you mean with "why doesn't the cursor stick in FF"?

[graham.reeds]

It's a MouseListenerAdaptor problem. I have the following cursors set
on the various mouse adaptor functions (as well as various other
code):
onMouseEnter openHand
onMouseDown closedHand
onMouseMove -
onMouseUp openHand
onMouseExit default

So it should switch to closed when you press the mousebutton. This
works for IE perfectly. In FF the closed hand happens but immediately
switches back to the openHand.

[Peter Blazejewicz]

hi Graham,
I would look into GWT tookit PushButton implementation at least to see
how they done that (mouse event implementation) for that kind of
widget,

regards,
Peter

[graham.reeds]

I looked but I can't find anything of any relevance. I followed it
through CustomButton, and the MOUSEEVENT functions but it seems to
tail off into a mass of twiddling functions. Maybe I was looking for
the wrong function call or something. I guess it isn't a deal-
breaker, just a low priority.


On Jan 14, 1:12 am, Peter Blazejewicz <peter.blazejew...@gmail.com>