Icons as mouse cursor

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Icons as mouse cursor

Closed this issue 4 years ago · 5 comments

joehei commented 4 years ago

Hi,

first of all, you have created a really cool lib, many thanks for that.

My question is, is there a easy way to convert any icon into a mouse cursor?

Cheers

Answer 1 · 2021-01-14T16:08:15.000Z

As far as I can tell this requires a subclass of https://openjfx.io/javadoc/11/javafx.graphics/javafx/scene/Cursor.html that can work with Ikon. There's no such class, yet. I hope that such class can be created, similar to https://openjfx.io/javadoc/11/javafx.graphics/javafx/scene/ImageCursor.html

Answer 2 · 2021-01-14T16:31:17.000Z

Well the default constructor for javax.scene.Cursor is package private which means no additional subclasses can be made at this time. 😡

Answer 3 · 2021-01-14T19:24:52.000Z

That is a great pity. That would have been a really cool feature.

Maybe it will work sometime in the future, however, thank you.

Answer 4 · 2021-01-14T20:06:18.000Z

Indeed, there's no direct path to render an Ikon as a Cursor. However there may be a workaround: print the graphics of a FontIcon into an Image, pass that image to an ImageCursor, et voilà!

Answer 5 · 2021-01-15T10:31:31.000Z

I will give it a try. Thanks.