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Custom Cursors

Posted by Danny on September 04, 2001 at 8:23 AM

I don't know if this is what you're after, but this code will use a GIF image and make a cursor out of it. This code is called within init() in my applet.

try
{
ImageIcon magimageicon = new ImageIcon(new URL(mydir + "/images/magcursor.gif"));
Image tmpimage = magimageicon.getImage();
Toolkit tk = getToolkit();
magcursor = tk.createCustomCursor(tmpimage, new Point(0,0), "Mag Cursor");

}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println("Failed to create mag cursor :- " + e);
}