Change mouse pointer over selected text

I have a JTextArea and i want to change the default mouse pointer to the arrow pointer when the user points to a selected text. Just like the way JCreator works.!
Thanx

Try this :
Cursor textCursor = new Cursor(Cursor.TEXT_CURSOR);
Cursor arrowCursor = new Cursor(Cursor.DEFAULT_CURSOR );
textArea.setCursor(textCursor);
textArea.addMouseMotionListener(new MouseMotionAdapter() {
     public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
          int location = textArea.viewToModel(e.getPoint());
          if (textArea.getSelectionStart()<=location && location<textArea.getSelectionEnd()) {
               if (textArea.getCursor() != arrowCursor) {
                    textArea.setCursor(arrowCursor);
          else {
               if (textArea.getCursor()==arrowCursor) {
                    textArea.setCursor(textCursor);
});I hope this helps,
Denis

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