Changing Cursor Color

can i change the cursor color beside changing its type ??

I thought Toolkit.createCustomCursor was used for this sort of thing.
You don't seem to be able to capture the Image representing a system cursor, however, so can't base a custom cursor on changing the colour of a system one.
You could probably get around this by using a custom cursor for your entire application (or at least the part that requires its colour to change) and use colourised versions of that as appropriate.
Hope this helps.

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There may be some haxies/3rd party s/w that can do this, but I've not heard of them.
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You can also add colors. Or just use rgb values directly, apparently. More about the color stuff here.
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Last edited by AndreasBWagner (2010-05-01 02:48:28)

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That's strange. Try tracing few things to make sure everything works as it should:
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Anne wrote:
> Hello:
> In a menu of four options (each option is only text) I
would like to change
> the color of the text that is clicked., the menu is a
group. Can you hep me
> please?
> thank you
>
>
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