Custom cursor in Carbon build

General
1

Hello. I’m getting a ‘Not supported on this platform’ exception when trying to access a custom mouse cursor in a Carbon build that works fine in Cocoa. I can’t find any documentation to explain this. Anyone?

2

The Carbon framework didn’t support custom mouse cursors that were built at runtime.

3

Thanks, Joe.

4

The Carbon framework did support “custom” mouse cursors… just a different kind. These were define as BLACK/White only and were defined with an XML file

its been years since I used them… and there have been a few topics where myself and others had provided apps to create the correct file format.

here are two that I found (don’t have time at the moment to find the app… but search this forum and you should)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<RBProject>
<block type="Cursor">
 <ObjName>Hourglass</ObjName>
<ItemData><Hex bytes="68">3FF83FF81010155012900920044002800280044008201110129015503FF83FF83FF83FF81FF01FF01FF00FE007C00380038007C00FE01FF01FF01FF03FF83FF800040002</Hex></ItemData>
</block>
</RBProject>
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<RBProject>
<block type="Cursor">
 <ObjName>zoom</ObjName>
<ItemData><Hex bytes="68">00003F00408080408040804080408040804040C03FE000700038001C000E000600003F007F80FFC0FFC0FFC0FFC0FFC0FFC07FC03FE000700038001C000E000600050004</Hex></ItemData>
</block>
</RBProject>
5

Dave,
Thank you! I did find the app in the forum’s past posts, and it worked like a charm!