Make my mouse invisible please.

Question

Hi, Im making a game (Not in an applet) using swing. I want to have a custom cursor in my game. So I drew up an image, and move it around the game where ever the mouse is by use of the mousemotionlistener. Now all I need to do is make the original mouse invisible when its over the application, like C++ games do. Is there a way to do this in Java? Or do I have to use directx's mouse exclusive mode ability? I don't really want to use directx so I was hoping there was a method in the Java API that could do this for me already.
Any help would be great :)

Answer 1

OMG thanks!! :D
I got it to work as follows:
(Note: null.gif is a 1x1 transparent pixel image)
// Done inside the constructor of a class extending JFrame
Toolkit tk = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
Image InvisMouse = tk.getImage("null.gif");
setCursor(tk.createCustomCursor(InvisMouse,new Point(0,0),""));I had to use a .gif since the buffered image gave a compile time error, and creating an unbuffered image turned the mouse into a grey fully opaque square.
Thanks again!