Re: Cursor doesn't change on Windows

["Issac Trotts" <ijtrotts ucdavis edu>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:54:04PM -0400, Todd Fisher wrote:
> Issac Trotts wrote:
> 
> >This code works fine on Debian but has no effect on Windows:
> >
> >   GdkCursor *translation_cursor=NULL;
> >   ...
> >   translation_cursor=gdk_cursor_new(GDK_FLEUR);
> >   ...
> >   gdk_window_set_cursor(gtk_widget_get_root_window(gl_area),
> >       translation_cursor);
> >
> >The Windows version of Gimp changes cursors all the time, proving that
> >it can be done.  It makes me wonder what I'm doing wrong, or not doing.
> >
> It might be that you need to do something like:
>  while( gtk_events_pending() )
>    gtk_main_iteration_do( FALSE );
> after calling  gdk_window_set_cursor( (GdkWindow*)window, cursor );
> I noticed on windows to change the cursor the event main loop needs to 
> be run but not in linux.

I just got it to work by changing 
    
    gtk_widget_get_root_window(gl_area)

to
    
    gl_area->window

Thanks to both who replied.

Issac

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Issac Trotts
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