Is it wrong to use the hand cursor for clickable items such as buttons? [closed]

The reason why the cursor changes shape when over a hyperlink probably has to do with the following: hyperlinks started in blocks of text and as such it wasn’t obvious that you could click on them to open another page. the change in display style for links in and of itself probably wasn’t enough to … Read more

Simulate Mouse Clicks on Python

You can use PyMouse which has now merged with PyUserInput. I installed it via pip: apt-get install python-pip pip install pymouse In some cases it used the cursor and in others it simulated mouse events without the cursor. from pymouse import PyMouse m = PyMouse() m.position() #gets mouse current position coordinates m.move(x,y) m.click(x,y) #the third … Read more

Change the mouse pointer using JavaScript

JavaScript is pretty good at manipulating CSS: document.body.style.cursor = *cursor-url*; //OR var elementToChange = document.getElementsByTagName(“body”)[0]; elementToChange.style.cursor = “url(‘cursor url with protocol’), auto”; or with jQuery: $(“html”).css(“cursor: url(‘cursor url with protocol’), auto”); Firefox will not work unless you specify a default cursor after the imaged one! other cursor keywords Also remember that IE6 only supports .cur … Read more

How to hide cursor in a Swing application?

It appears that the Cursor class does not have a “blank” cursor to begin with, so one could define a new “blank” cursor using the Toolkit.createCustomCursor method. Here’s one way I’ve tried which seems to work: // Transparent 16 x 16 pixel cursor image. BufferedImage cursorImg = new BufferedImage(16, 16, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB); // Create a new … Read more

Cursor.Current vs. this.Cursor

Windows sends the window that contains the mouse cursor the WM_SETCURSOR message, giving it an opportunity to change the cursor shape. A control like TextBox takes advantage of that, changing the cursor into a I-bar. The Control.Cursor property determines what shape will be used. The Cursor.Current property changes the shape directly, without waiting for a … Read more

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