Re: [AD] new mouse cursors

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2009-08-17, Matthew Leverton <meffer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Evert Glebbeek<eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > For reference, the standard cursors available on OS X are listed on http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/nscursor_Class/Reference/Reference.html
> >  (with images).
> >
> Regarding resizing, it seems like we'd need to add the four
> bidirectional cursors just to be safe: NS, EW, NW_SE, NE_SW.
> 
> It's easy in Windows to pick an appropriate cursor for all 12 resizing
> ones, but in OS X, I think the six diagonal ones should be ignored.
> 
> The disappearing item pointer is more obscure than the up arrow (alt
> select) for Windows, heh. But I'm not opposed to adding any
> purpose-driven cursor that is standard in a major OS. But (e.g.) I see
> no compelling reason to add an umbrella (?) icon as it doesn't mean
> anything.
> 
> >With the exception of CURSOR_LINK (which would map to Pointing Hand) I
> >don't think any of these have a direct equivalent.
> >
> PRECISION would map to crosshairCursor

Committed this.  I had a go at the Mac cursors, too, but there seems to
be a dearth of them.

Peter