Icons as mouse cursor

[joehei]

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

[aalmiray]

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

[aalmiray]

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

[joehei]

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

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

[aalmiray]

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!

[joehei]

I will give it a try. Thanks.