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Re: Support for More (or Custom) Cursors? Ian MacArthur Apr 27, 2021  
 
On Tuesday, 27 April 2021 at 07:28:03 UTC+1 Webb wrote:

I was returning to this thread because I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on how scaling the cursor image across different monitors might work, so very happy to see some examples. Any thoughts on why cursor must take an RgbImage and not an SVG?

Have you tried the Fl_SVG_Image type? As Greg points out, it may well Just Work if the SVG is loaded and scaled appropriately.

However, in answer to the question, the crux is basically "history" and that the cursor in a lot of systems is (or at least used to be) a sprite handled directly by the GPU hardware, and so there were (are) some constraints on how the cursor and its mask could be loaded (it basically has/had to be a pixel map, or in some cases even, literally, a bit map.)

So generally, to make it work, you need to scale and convert the image you have into a pixel map to be loaded and displayed, regardless of whether the source of the image is a pixel format or a vector format.


Also, as an aside, the convention when posting in this group is to *not* top post, but to interleave responses with the relevant citations, trimming where appropriate...



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