How to identify the state of system cursor

Question

Hi All,
My requirement is to identify the state of the system cursor and when it changes to normal mode from hour glass mode i have to do an action. Of all the things i had gone through it only dealt with the cursor that appears over a java component(setCursor() method etc).
Can anyone please provide me the solution to identify the state of the system cursor.
Since i am dealing with the mouse pointer that is not subclassed from JAVA's component class even sample coding to identify the system cursors state will help.
In simple wordings,
1)A non JAVA related process is running in the foreground which will change the mouse pointers state from hour glass to regular and vice versa.
2)My JAVA program which is running in the background has to identify the systems cursor state change and trigger some events.
Note: I had tried all of the possible methods in Component class and Cursor class which never worked out.
Your solution will be of great use to me. Please help.

Answer 1

Kaleeswaran15 wrote:
..I dont want the cursor in screenshot. What i wanted is to find the time when the mouse pointer changes its status to regular from Hourglass. .. Oh, I thought you meant to grab an image including the current cursor, and analyze the image for the presence of an arrow or hourglass. My bad.
In any case, if the user is that keen to know via your Java application whether the mouse pointer of another program has changed to the wait state, there is always..
int askTheUser = JOptionPane,showConfirmDialog(
    this,
    "Is XYZ app. busy?",
    "XYZ app. busy?",
    JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION);
if (  askTheUser==JOptionPane.YES_OPTION ) {
    // XYZ app. is busy!
    // ...... untested.
..Thank you.You are welcome.