From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Matarazzo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cannot set mouse pointer / cursor color on Mac OS X (10.9) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 05:43:56 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406613052 9755 80.91.229.3 (29 Jul 2014 05:50:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 05:50:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 29 07:50:45 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XC0J9-0002GO-D1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:50:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43779 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XC0J9-0002mZ-0H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:50:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56314) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XC0Ii-0002mI-H3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:50:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XC0Ib-0008Vd-0V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:50:16 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41856) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XC0Ia-0008V6-PP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XC0IV-0001ze-A6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:50:03 +0200 Original-Received: from static-50-53-76-188.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net ([50.53.76.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:50:03 +0200 Original-Received: from joe.matarazzo by static-50-53-76-188.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:50:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 50.53.76.188 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.77.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.5 Safari/537.77.4) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98975 Archived-At: Looks like I can brute-force a solution by recompiling from source, and modify nsfns.m like so: NSImage *joeIbeam = [NSImage imageNamed:@"joeIbeam"]; f->output_data.ns->text_cursor = [[NSCursor alloc] initWithImage:joeIbeam hotSpot:NSMakePoint(4,7)]; // f->output_data.ns->text_cursor = [NSCursor IBeamCursor]; where joeIbeam.tiff is a simple copy of the system ibeam with the black pixels replaced by something bright and garish. :) After rebuilding and copying Emacs into the Applications/Emacs.app hierarchy, along with joeIbeam.tiff into the Resources part of said hierarchy, I got my wish. Nice ugly but very visible text cursor. FWIW, there are comments in the source as well that set-mouse-color doesn't have an implementation path on nextstep. So I guess it's this or nothing. Joe