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Re: Cursor Hell
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Re: Cursor Hell


  • Subject: Re: Cursor Hell
  • From: Jason Harris <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:05:11 -0700

This is correct - any cursor that you set _must_ be 16x16 pixels. This is
an artificial limitation imposed by the API. There are some issues with
hardware cursors vs. software cursors - I'd imagine that this is why they
impose the 16x16 limit.

Jason Harris
Geekspiff


Henry McGilton Tried to Tell Me:

> I have had a lot of trouble with cursors, and I would like some
> assistance from anybody who actually knows this stuff, as opposed
> to all the hand-waving in the documentation.
>
> Reading between the lines of the AppKit documentation and the Cocoa
> Programming book (the only book I have read so far that even mentions
> cursors), I conclude that a cursor is not only limited to 16 by 16
> pixels, but *must* be 16 by 16 pixels. That is, if I have a 15 by
> 15 pixel images, it still gets mapped into a 16 by 16 window.
> Correct or not correct?
>
> Why the limitations on cursors?
>
> Many Thanks,
> ........ Henry
>
>
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