https://wiki.secondlife.com/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Adding_a_cursor 2026-07-27T14:35:47Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.42.1 https://wiki.secondlife.com/w/index.php?title=Adding_a_cursor&diff=33188&oldid=prev 2007-09-27T18:12:56Z

<p>New page: * Add new entry to enum ECursorType in llwindow.h ** For example, UI_CURSOR_STUFF === Windows === * Create art for Windows ** Go into indra/newview/res ** Duplicate toolopen.cur ** Name ne...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>* Add new entry to enum ECursorType in llwindow.h<br /> ** For example, UI_CURSOR_STUFF<br /> === Windows ===<br /> * Create art for Windows<br /> ** Go into indra/newview/res<br /> ** Duplicate toolopen.cur<br /> ** Name new file something like toolstuff.cur<br /> ** Visual Studio &gt; View &gt; Resource View<br /> ** Right-click newViewRes.rc &gt; Cursor<br /> ** Add Resource...<br /> ** Import...<br /> ** Select toolstuff.cur<br /> ** Edit the cursor using Visual Studio bitmap tools<br /> ** Open Properties view<br /> ** Click on name IDC_CURSOR_6<br /> ** Rename to &quot;TOOLSTUFF&quot;<br /> * Link to Windows code<br /> ** Add to llwindowwin32.cpp, LLWindowWin32::initCursors()<br /> ** mCursor[UI_CURSOR_TOOLSTUFF] = loadColorCursor(TEXT(&quot;TOOLSTUFF&quot;));<br /> === Mac ===<br /> * Create art for Mac<br /> ** indra/newview/cursors_mac<br /> ** duplicate UI_CURSOR_TOOLOPEN.tif<br /> ** Save cursor as 32-bit TIFF<br /> * Link to Mac code<br /> ** Edit llwindowmacosx.cpp cursorIDToName()<br /> ** Add &quot;UI_CURSOR_TOOLSTUFF&quot;<br /> === Linux ===<br /> * Create art for Linux<br /> ** indra/newview/res_sdl<br /> ** duplicate toolopen.BMP<br /> ** save as 24-bit BMP<br /> ** Alpha is color-keyed to 200, 200, 200<br /> * Link to code<br /> ** Edit llwindowsdl.cpp LLWindowSDL::initCursors()<br /> ** mSDLCursors[UI_CURSOR_TOOLPLAY] = makeSDLCursorFromBMP(&quot;toolplay.BMP&quot;,0,0);<br /> ** Hot-spot is hard-coded in above function call</div>

James Linden