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cursors (1t)

Name

cursors - mouse cursors available in Tk

Synopsis

Please see following description for synopsis

Description

cursors(1t)                  Tk Built-In Commands                  cursors(1t)



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NAME
       cursors - mouse cursors available in Tk
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DESCRIPTION
       The  -cursor  widget  option allows a Tk programmer to change the mouse
       cursor for a particular widget.  The cursor names recognized by  Tk  on
       all platforms are:
              X_cursor
              arrow
              based_arrow_down
              based_arrow_up
              boat
              bogosity
              bottom_left_corner
              bottom_right_corner
              bottom_side
              bottom_tee
              box_spiral
              center_ptr
              circle
              clock
              coffee_mug
              cross
              cross_reverse
              crosshair
              diamond_cross
              dot
              dotbox
              double_arrow
              draft_large
              draft_small
              draped_box
              exchange
              fleur
              gobbler
              gumby
              hand1
              hand2
              heart
              icon
              iron_cross
              left_ptr
              left_side
              left_tee
              leftbutton
              ll_angle
              lr_angle
              man
              middlebutton
              mouse
              none
              pencil
              pirate
              plus
              question_arrow
              right_ptr
              right_side
              right_tee
              rightbutton
              rtl_logo
              sailboat
              sb_down_arrow
              sb_h_double_arrow
              sb_left_arrow
              sb_right_arrow
              sb_up_arrow
              sb_v_double_arrow
              shuttle
              sizing
              spider
              spraycan
              star
              target
              tcross
              top_left_arrow
              top_left_corner
              top_right_corner
              top_side
              top_tee
              trek
              ul_angle
              umbrella
              ur_angle
              watch
              xterm

       The none cursor can be specified to eliminate the cursor.

PORTABILITY ISSUES
       Windows
              On  Windows  systems, the following cursors are mapped to native
              cursors:
                     arrow
                     center_ptr
                     crosshair
                     fleur
                     ibeam
                     icon
                     none
                     sb_h_double_arrow
                     sb_v_double_arrow
                     watch
                     xterm
              And the following additional cursors are available:
                     no
                     starting
                     size
                     size_ne_sw
                     size_ns
                     size_nw_se
                     size_we
                     uparrow
                     wait

       Mac OS X
              On Mac OS X systems, the following cursors are mapped to  native
              cursors:
                     arrow
                     top_left_arrow
                     left_ptr
                     cross
                     crosshair
                     tcross
                     ibeam
                     none
                     xterm
              And the following additional native cursors are available:
                     copyarrow
                     aliasarrow
                     contextualmenuarrow
                     movearrow
                     text
                     cross-hair
                     hand
                     openhand
                     closedhand
                     fist
                     pointinghand
                     resize
                     resizeleft
                     resizeright
                     resizeleftright
                     resizeup
                     resizedown
                     resizeupdown
                     resizebottomleft
                     resizetopleft
                     resizebottomright
                     resizetopright
                     notallowed
                     poof
                     wait
                     countinguphand
                     countingdownhand
                     countingupanddownhand
                     spinning
                     help
                     bucket
                     cancel
                     eyedrop
                     eyedrop-full
                     zoom-in
                     zoom-out

KEYWORDS
       cursor, option



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | runtime/tk-8     |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+

NOTES
       Source  code  for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This     software     was    built    from    source    available    at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.   The  original   community
       source        was        downloaded        from         https://source-
       forge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/8.6.7/tk8.6.7-src.tar.gz/download.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://www.tcl.tk/.



Tk                                    8.3                          cursors(1t)