Re: Changing the cursor in a GTK+ 2 window

[Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip sympatico ca>]

Dixit martyn.2.russell at bt.com (2003-03-28 10:47):
> > How does one change the cursor to the "watch" cursor in a GTK+ 2.0
> > window, and then change it back to normal?
>
>         GdkCursor *cursor = NULL;
>         cursor = gdk_cursor_new(GDK_WATCH);
>         gdk_window_set_cursor (event->window, cursor);
>         
>         /* clean up */
>         g_object_unref(G_OBJECT(cursor));

Thanks.

For some reason, g_object_unref() crashed on my system, but I found
that this call could be replaced with

    gdk_cursor_unref(cursor);

which does not crash.

-- 
Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip at sympatico dot ca>