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NSCursor

Authors

Scott Christley (scottc@net-community.com)
Adam Fedor (fedor@gnu.org)

Date: Generated at 2025-07-12 14:18:56 +0000

Holds an image to use as a cursor

Copyright: (C) 1996,1999,2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Software documentation for the NSCursor class

NSCursor : NSObject

Declared in:
AppKit/NSCursor.h
Availability: OpenStep

Description forthcoming.

Instance Variables

Method summary


IBeamCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) IBeamCursor;
Availability: OpenStep

Returns an I-beam cursor.


arrowCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) arrowCursor;
Availability: OpenStep

Returns an arrow cursor.


closedHandCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) closedHandCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.3.0

Description forthcoming.

contextualMenuCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) contextualMenuCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.6.0

Description forthcoming.

count 

+ (NSUInteger) count;
Availability: OpenStep

Description forthcoming.

crosshairCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) crosshairCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.3.0

Description forthcoming.

currentCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) currentCursor;
Availability: OpenStep

Returns the current cursor.


currentSystemCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) currentSystemCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.6.0

Description forthcoming.

disappearingItemCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) disappearingItemCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.3.0

Description forthcoming.

dragCopyCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) dragCopyCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.6.0

Description forthcoming.

dragLinkCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) dragLinkCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.6.0

Description forthcoming.

greenArrowCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) greenArrowCursor;
Availability: Not in OpenStep/MacOS-X

Description forthcoming.

hide 

+ (void) hide;
Availability: OpenStep

Hides the current cursor.


isHiddenUntilMouseMoves 

+ (BOOL) isHiddenUntilMouseMoves;
Availability: OpenStep

Returns whther the cursor is hidden until mouse moves


openHandCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) openHandCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.3.0

Description forthcoming.

operationNotAllowedCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) operationNotAllowedCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.6.0

Description forthcoming.

pointingHandCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) pointingHandCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.3.0

Description forthcoming.

pop 

+ (void) pop;
Availability: OpenStep

Pops the cursor off the top of the stack and makes the previous one as the current cursor.


resizeDownCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) resizeDownCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.3.0

Description forthcoming.

resizeLeftCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) resizeLeftCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.3.0

Description forthcoming.

resizeLeftRightCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) resizeLeftRightCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.3.0

Description forthcoming.

resizeRightCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) resizeRightCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.3.0

Description forthcoming.

resizeUpCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) resizeUpCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.3.0

Description forthcoming.

resizeUpDownCursor 

+ (NSCursor*) resizeUpDownCursor;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.3.0

Description forthcoming.

setHiddenUntilMouseMoves: 

+ (void) setHiddenUntilMouseMoves: (BOOL)flag;
Availability: OpenStep

Hides the cursor if flag is YES. Unhides it if NO


unhide 

+ (void) unhide;
Availability: OpenStep

Shows the NSCursor.

See Also: +hide


hotSpot 

- (NSPoint) hotSpot;
Availability: OpenStep

Returns the hot spot point of the NSCursor. This is in the cursor's coordinate system which is a flipped on (origin at the top left of the cursor).


image 

- (NSImage*) image;
Availability: OpenStep

Returns the image of the NSCursor


initWithImage: 

- (id) initWithImage: (NSImage*)newImage;
Availability: Not in OpenStep/MacOS-X

Initializes and returns a new NSCursor with a NSImage newImage and a hot spot point with x=0 and y=0 (top left corner).

See Also: -initWithImage:hotSpot:


initWithImage: foregroundColorHint: backgroundColorHint: hotSpot: 

- (id) initWithImage: (NSImage*)newImage foregroundColorHint: (NSColor*)fg backgroundColorHint: (NSColor*)bg hotSpot: (NSPoint)hotSpot;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.0.0

Description forthcoming.

initWithImage: hotSpot: 

- (id) initWithImage: (NSImage*)newImage hotSpot: (NSPoint)hotSpot;
Availability: OpenStep

Initializes and returns a new NSCursor with a NSImage newImage and the hot spot to hotSpot.

NB. The coordinate system of an NSCursor is flipped, so a hotSpot at 0,0 is in the top left corner of the cursor.

See Also: -initWithImage: -setImage:


isSetOnMouseEntered 

- (BOOL) isSetOnMouseEntered;
Availability: OpenStep


isSetOnMouseExited 

- (BOOL) isSetOnMouseExited;
Availability: OpenStep


mouseEntered: 

- (void) mouseEntered: (NSEvent*)theEvent;
Availability: OpenStep

Sets the cursor if -isSetOnMouseEntered is YES or pushs the cursor if -isSetOnMouseExited is NO

See Also: -isSetOnMouseEntered -isSetOnMouseExited


mouseExited: 

- (void) mouseExited: (NSEvent*)theEvent;
Availability: OpenStep

Sets the cursor if -isSetOnMouseExited is YES or pops the cursor if -isSetOnMouseEntered is NO

See Also: -isSetOnMouseExited -isSetOnMouseEntered


pop 

- (void) pop;
Availability: OpenStep

Pops the cursor off the top of the stack and makes the previous the current cursor.


push 

- (void) push;
Availability: OpenStep

Adds the NSCursor into the cursor stack and makes it the current cursor.

See Also: -pop -set


set 

- (void) set;
Availability: OpenStep

Sets the NSCursor as the current cursor.


setHotSpot: 

- (void) setHotSpot: (NSPoint)spot;
Availability: Not in OpenStep/MacOS-X

Sets the hot spot point of the NSCursor to spot


setImage: 

- (void) setImage: (NSImage*)newImage;
Availability: Not in OpenStep/MacOS-X

Sets newImage the image of the NSCursor


setOnMouseEntered: 

- (void) setOnMouseEntered: (BOOL)flag;
Availability: OpenStep

Sets whether if the cursor is set on -mouseEntered: .

See Also: -isSetOnMouseEntered -mouseEntered: -set


setOnMouseExited: 

- (void) setOnMouseExited: (BOOL)flag;
Availability: OpenStep

Sets whether if the cursor is push on -mouseExited: .

See Also: -isSetOnMouseExited -mouseExited: -set




Instance Variables for NSCursor Class

_cid

@protected void* _cid;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

_cursor_image

@protected NSImage* _cursor_image;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

_hot_spot

@protected NSPoint _hot_spot;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

struct GSCursorFlagsType

@protected struct GSCursorFlagsType struct GSCursorFlagsType;
Availability: OpenStep

Description forthcoming.





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