Mouse Follower

Mouse Follower is a powerful package that empowers you to create custom mouse followers for your applications, breaking through design limitations. With additional features such as the flexibility to design any shape you want, uncomplicated properties, and ease of use, it offers unparalleled flexibility and creativity in enhancing user interactions.

Easy and Fast adding on feature for your Flutter Apps

Mouse.Follower.Examples.mp4

Dummy example

Real world example

Advanced Animated Examples

Why mouse_follower?

• 🚀 Easy to implement
• 🔌 Speed and Sensitivity Settings
• 💾 Opacity Control
• ⚡ Support for any child widgets
• ↩️ Position Control
• ❤️ Customize the cursor shape itself
• 💻 Documentation and Tutorials.
• 🛡️ Null safety support.
• 🖨️ Customizable designs.

Getting Started

🔩 Installation

Add to your pubspec.yaml:

dependencies:
  mouse_follower: ^1.2.2

import the library path:

import 'package:mouse_follower/mouse_follower.dart';

⚙️ Configuration app

Add MouseFollower widget like in the example.

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      home: MouseFollower(
          showDefaultMouseStyle: true,
          child:MyHomePage(),
      )
    );
  }

📜 MouseFollower() widget properties

Properties	Required	Default	Description
key	false		Widget key.
isVisible	false	`kIsWeb
child	true		Put your child widget here (recommanded to put the whole app).
mouseStylesStack	false	[MouseStyle()]	Stack of MouseStyle with multiple options
onHoverMouseStylesStack	false	[MouseStyle()]	Stack of MouseStyle that appears when hovering over the MouseOnHoverEvent widget
showDefaultMouseStyle	false	true	When true the default cursor will appear if mouseStylesStack and onHoverMouseStylesStack are empty.
defaultMouseCursor	false	MouseCursor.defer	To change the default Mouse system icon
onHoverMouseCursor	false	MouseCursor.defer	To change the default Mouse system icon for MouseOnHoverEvent Widget

Usage

🔥 Add your mouse custom style

...
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return MaterialApp(
      home: MouseFollower(
            mouseStylesStack: [
                MouseStyle(
                  size: const Size(7, 7), latency: const Duration(milliseconds: 25),
                  decoration: BoxDecoration(color: Theme.of(context).primaryColor, shape: BoxShape.circle),
                  ),
                MouseStyle(
                  size: const Size(26, 26), latency: const Duration(milliseconds: 75),
                  visibleOnHover: false,
                  decoration: BoxDecoration(
                      color: Colors.transparent,
                      shape: BoxShape.circle,
                      border: Border.all(color: Theme.of(context).primaryColor)),
                ),
            ],
            child:MyHomePage())
  );
}

🔥 Add your mouse on hover custom style

...
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return MaterialApp(
      home: MouseFollower(
            mouseStylesList: ....
            onHoverMouseStylesStack: [
                MouseStyle(size: const Size(50,50),
                    latency: const Duration(milliseconds: 25),
                    decoration: BoxDecoration(shape: BoxShape.circle,
                    color: Theme.of(context).primaryColor.withAlpha(150)),
            ),
          ],
        child:MyHomePage())
  );
}

/// to activate onHover style you have to wrap the needed widget by `MouseOnHoverEvent`.
...
  MouseOnHoverEvent(child: Text("Hover Me!"))
...

📜 MouseStyle() widget properties

Properties	Default	Description
key		Widget key.
child		You can add your custom child for Mouse Style.
size	Size(15,15)	Resize the mouse style as you want.
decoration		Customize your own decoration.
latency	Duration(milliseconds: 25)	Add latency duration for the mouse follower style
alignment	Alignment.center	By default the mouse style is in center position for the cursor
opacity	1.0	You can adjust the opacity of the style from 0.0 not visible to 1.0 visible
opaque	false
animationDuration	Duration(milliseconds: 300)	Animation duration when changing the style from widget to another
animationCurve	Curves.easeOutExpo	You can change the animation style
transform
visibleOnHover	false	If you want to enable the same style in onHoverMouseEvent enable this

📜 MouseOnHoverEvent() widget properties

Properties	Type	Description
key		Widget key.
child	Widget	A required child to be wrapped.
decoration	BoxDecoration?	Override the default or the inialized decoration.
size	Size?	Override the default or the inialized mouse size.
mouseChild	Widget?	Override the default or the inialized mouse child.
onHoverMouseCursor	MouseCursor?	Override the default or the inialized mouse cursor.
customOnHoverMouseStylesStack	List<MouseStyle>?	Override the default or the inialized mouse styles stack.
animationCurve	Curve?	Override the default or the the inialized animation curve.
animationDuration	Duration?	Override the default or the inialized animation duration.
opacity	double?	Override the default or the inialized opacity.
alignment	Alignment?	Override the default or the inialized alignment.
latency	Duration?	Override the default or the inialized latency.

📜 Custom child

MouseOnHoverEvent(
    decoration: const BoxDecoration(shape: BoxShape.rectangle, color: Colors.transparent),
    size: const Size(100,50),
    opacity: 0.5,
    latency: const Duration(milliseconds: 75),
    mouseChild: Image.network("images/mouse_follower.jpg"),
    child: const Text("Hover Me!")
),

📜 magnifier

MouseOnHoverEvent(
    customOnHoverMouseStylesStack: [
        MouseStyle(
        size: Size(50, 50),
        latency: Duration(milliseconds: 0),
        child: RawMagnifier(
            size: Size(80, 80),
            magnificationScale: 1.5,
            decoration: MagnifierDecoration(shape: CircleBorder()),
            ),
        ),
    ],
    child: Text("Can you read this text!"),
),

📜 custom icon

MouseOnHoverEvent(
    onHoverMouseCursor: SystemMouseCursors.none,
    customOnHoverMouseStylesStack: [
    MouseStyle(
        latency: const Duration(milliseconds: 0),
        child: Image.network("images/cursor.png"),
        )
    ],
    child: const Text("You can replace the cursor itself with almost any widget"),
),

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