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amayze
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 Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:21 pm Post subject: Enabling alternate cursors |
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Here's my suggestion for the New Features programme.
Enabling all of the alternate mouse cursors that OpenOffice uses in NeoOffice.
What I'm referring to are the cursors that appear when, say, you hover the mouse over a table border in Writer, or click in a drawing tool.
There is some discussion of this here:
http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2687&highlight=cur
and also here:
http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=1910&pos=7
But nothing came of it at the time.
Whilst it may not be the most Mac like of features that OOo has, it would add greatly to usability as it makes it much easier to see if you are in the right place when scaling tables and images etc.
Feasible? Correct use of New Features Programme? And at what price?
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OPENSTEP
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The feasibility of integrating the custom cursors is somewhat questionable. One of the big problems in this area is that Java AWT doesn't really allow for custom cursor definitions; java.awt.Cursor doesn't provide for defining custom cursors. There is an undocumented static method that apparently was known to work on Windows 98, but all in all AWT isn't set up for this kind of thing.
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OPENSTEP
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OK, I lied. Be on the lookout for some of them in the next test patch.
ed |
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pluby
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| OPENSTEP wrote: | | OK, I lied. Be on the lookout for some of them in the next test patch. |
You didn't lie, you just didn't see all that template code I had commented out when I couldn't figure out how to convert OOo's Windows cursor icon files.
Thanks Ed for converting the files and finding the hot point for each.
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OPENSTEP
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| pluby wrote: | | Thanks Ed for converting the files and finding the hot point for each. |
Ah, the wonders of GraphicConverter and Perl.
The joyous opportunity was granted from this fun little guy:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Imager/
If anyone else is ever parsing .ico or .cur files, it's pretty fun and a bit easier to grok than ImageMagick 
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amayze
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| OPENSTEP wrote: | | OK, I lied. Be on the lookout for some of them in the next test patch. |
Well that wasn't the answer I was expecting!!
Looking forward to the next test patch.
Better go and donate now...
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pluby
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