Custom Cursors

i486 · 10 Apr 2021

Cesare said:

@i486

I am glad you added an orange and green version. How many more color variants shall you make?

It mainly depends on what I'll personally need based on my wallpaper choices, so there's no future plans at the moment. Making some very light variations is tempting, such as a light "aqua" that combines green and cyan, but they are more challenging because they won't look so good on dark backgrounds. The existing yellow set is an example of that, it looks great on white backgrounds but not on dark ones. Using black or dark grey edges to alleviate that would make them boring. White edges would work better, but that would limit my options for center colours. There must be some amount of contrast.

Cesare · 11 Apr 2021

@i486

Thanks for explaining to me in depth your color variation plans and how you use the cursors.

When you name the diagonal cursors, please name them properly. For example, size 1 should be Diagonal Resize 1 and size 2, Diagonal Resize 2. That is wrong according to correct cursor roles:

You need to swap the cursor role names so that they appear like this:

That is how it should be named.

jbcarreon123 · 11 Apr 2021

@i486

Thanks for the 'Binary Enhanced Cursor' but I have trouble installing the cursor.
No install.inf!

I'm not risking to install manually, because the animated cursor didn't work if I install it manually.

Cheers,
JB Carreon

Cesare · 11 Apr 2021

@jbcarreon123

For me, all the animated cursor roles work.

jbcarreon123 · 11 Apr 2021

Cesare said:

@jbcarreon123

For me, all the animated cursor roles work.

I not risking to install it manually.

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Next Request to complete my Ancient XP theme: Windows XP Cursor!

Cesare · 11 Apr 2021

@jbcarreon123

That OK.

i486 · 11 Apr 2021

Cesare said:

@i486

Thanks for explaining to me in depth your color variation plans and how you use the cursors.

When you name the diagonal cursors, please name them properly. For example, size 1 should be Diagonal Resize 1 and size 2, Diagonal Resize 2. That is wrong according to correct cursor roles:

You need to swap the cursor role names so that they appear like this:

That is how it should be named.

They are as Hopachi named them and I left them alone. Either way it's easy to pick the correct one when I browse for them in mouse settings.

jbcarreon123 said:

@i486

Thanks for the 'Binary Enhanced Cursor' but I have trouble installing the cursor.
No install.inf!

I'm not risking to install manually, because the animated cursor didn't work if I install it manually.

Cheers,
JB Carreon

Explain step-by-step how you attempted to apply them?

jbcarreon123 · 11 Apr 2021

i486 said:

Explain step-by-step how you attempted to apply them?

I will use the install.inf to install the cursor. It missing.

i486 · 11 Apr 2021

jbcarreon123 said:

I will use the install.inf to install the cursor. It missing.

The way I install cursors is that I unpack them to the official Windows cursors folder in C:/Windows/Cursors and then manually browse for them in mouse settings found in classic control panel. I've never seen any cursors malfunction because of that, so you must be doing something wrong or your Windows settings somehow prevent cursor animations, which I've never heard of either. It only takes a minute to set all cursor roles this way and save the preset for later use.

Hopachi · 11 Apr 2021

Cesare said:

@i486
@Hopachi
I would like to get an answer from you. Are you willing to make my requested Riddler Premium Large cursors set? All I want is either a yes or no answer.

If I can use the same template as in the Deluxe, yes.
I'll probably let the too-small-to-see stuff out.

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i486 said:

So those SVG files are the pointers you get when you choose the custom colour setting?!

I didn't expect Windows to support image files as cursors like websites do, yet. What about the other three, does it simply use the existing system cursors for those or are they also SVGs? The edges are treated independently based on how dark the chosen colour is, and from what I know from my brief experiments they are usually either black or grey. It doesn't seem to allow white edges by default if you choose the custom colour setting, and what about animated cursors, would animated SVGs be supported? I doubt Windows can currently modify animated files like it does static ones now.

Windows 10 (from 1903 onwards) uses generated CUR files.
The new interface has a built-in cursor-generator, that's a nice thing. The SVG flies are used to generate statical CUR files.
Just set one up, with the colour you like, and it gets saved in:

Code:

%localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Cursors

From there you can copy / backup them or even use on an older Windows version...

There is at the moment of writing no animation supported, hence no way to generate ANI files.
This would complicate things but would probably be achievable in the future.
Edge-inversion works in relation to the base colour you choose: black or white edge for light or dark base colour.

The other three you mention use the built-in system black / white / inverted CUR files for the regular size. But if you increase the pointer size then the SVG gets used and generated CUR gets saved at mentioned location.