[java] hide the Cursor???

There are 5 premade cursors in the Java API already, they are
CROSSHAIR_CURSOR a plus sign (i think this is the one you want)
DEFAULT_CURSOR the arrow
HAND_CURSOR a little gloved hand
TEXT_CURSOR that I shaped one
WAIT_CURSOR an hourglass


In order to use these crosshairs, Im assuming you game is an application, just call the setCursor method in your public static void main method.

If your application is called Game , then when you created the instance of it in your main method put this.

Game game = new Game();
game.setCursor(CROSSHAIR_CURSOR);

I haven't tried this yet , but I just read it in a book so it should work.

Sir Sapo, close, that technique is deprecated, you should use instead
yourJFrame.setCursor(new Cursor(Cursor.CROSSHAIR_CURSOR));

that is, to use the premade crosshair cursor.

skip putting the cursor in place yourself, use your picture as a custom cursor:

the new Point(int x, int y) refers to the "hotspot" on the cursor, i.e., the part that is actually the pointer. In your case, the Point is probably in the middle of the image.

Thanks for the update capn_midnight.

Capn midnight the code you gave me to use a custom cursor worked great! thanks for the help!..

Sir Sapo thanks anyways, i already knew about the premade cursors but i wanted to use one i drew up myself..thanks for the help though

If you actually want to hide the cursor, make a transparent image and use it as a cursor..

BufferedImage cursor = new BufferedImage(16,16,BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);Cursor transparentCursor = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().CreateCustomCursor(cursor,new Point(0,0),"TransparentCursor");this.setCursor(transparentCursor);

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Original post by Rickmeister If you actually want to hide the cursor, make a transparent image and use it as a cursor.. BufferedImage cursor = new BufferedImage(16,16,BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);Cursor transparentCursor = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().CreateCustomCursor(cursor,new Point(0,0),"TransparentCursor");this.setCursor(transparentCursor);

Yeah thats what I ended up doin because the image i used as a crosshair looked like crap when it was used as a cursor.. it was all distorted and stuff so i just hide the cursor and used mouse motion listener and set the cross hairs to the mouse x and y