 |
 |
Custom cursor without 3rd party application
|
|
|
|
|
Baninated
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: The Moon
Status:
Offline
|
|
I installed Mighty Mouse to see if I would like the dropped shadow cursor. Since this is the only modification I use, I was wondering how I would add it to my system on a more permenant bases. So I wont have to depend on 3rd party apps just for one slight cursor modification.
I know it can be done, so what's the deal?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Tempe, AZ
Status:
Offline
|
|
Admittedly, I'm biased towards Mighty Mouse, but I honestly don't think it can be done. The cursor is hard-coded into the OS and needs to be changed in software - Mighty Mouse.
You can change the spinning beachball by patching system executables on disk, but this is a really bad idea unless you are extremely comfortable with the command line or don't mind reinstalling your OS often.
|
Geekspiff - generating spiffdiddlee software since before you began paying attention.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Missing, presumed fed.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Sigh. I long for the days of Beachball and Blobber. May they live in unsuported peace.
|
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Baninated
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: The Moon
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by smeger:
Admittedly, I'm biased towards Mighty Mouse, but I honestly don't think it can be done. The cursor is hard-coded into the OS and needs to be changed in software - Mighty Mouse.
You can change the spinning beachball by patching system executables on disk, but this is a really bad idea unless you are extremely comfortable with the command line or don't mind reinstalling your OS often.
Someone did it once didn't they? I think I remember it happening. Why would changing that make you have to install the OS often?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: South Detroit
Status:
Offline
|
|
The DXB theme changes your cursor dramatically. It's not the one you want, but it can be done without any application running. I much prefer my supercool cursor that I use with mighty mouse to a 'normal' dropshadow cursor.
|
I love the U.S., but we need some time apart.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: New York, NY
Status:
Offline
|
|
The dropshadow cursor with Beachball never looked authentic, it kinda squashed the arrow and the shadow looked weird.. since it was limited to the original size. I love how it looks with Mightymouse though (especcially since you don't need to register to do it  ).
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to Themes
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Sweden
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by n8x:
The dropshadow cursor with Beachball never looked authentic, it kinda squashed the arrow and the shadow looked weird.. since it was limited to the original size. I love how it looks with Mightymouse though (especcially since you don't need to register to do it ).
That's right. The shadow had to be cropped and it would only work in thousands of colors. So, just go with Might Mouse. It's a pretty inexpensive shareware and it works great for me.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: The Land of Beer and Chocolates
Status:
Offline
|
|
Yeah, Mighty Mouse is well worth its $10. Thanks to it I'm the happy owner of a cursur with drop shadow 
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2002
Status:
Offline
|
|
Just out of curiosity, do MightyMouse cursors still flicker when dragging?
It is quite, umm, possible to change the cursor permanently. I have the instructions on how to do it somewhere and the shadowed cursor (and the aqua beachball). So long as you don't botch it up there would be no need to reinstall. I did it without the command line.
|
|
-"I don't believe in God. "
"That doesn't matter. He believes in you."
-"I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me."
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
Status:
Offline
|
|
hmmm...
i've never seen any flickering.
i'm currently using mike's cursors, a nearly-perfect set.
best basic cursor by a long shot!
mighty mouse is worth it for that alone...
|
|
"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Beachball actually does (er, did) exactly what you're talking about... it patches the executable as Smeger said, and if you really felt like it you could then delete Beachball completely and your custom cursor would stay. The problems, of course, are that you're limited to the cursor size provided by Apple, and that you'll need to make a cursor that will work with 10.2.6... which I'm not even sure is possible, and might very well break your cursor when 10.2.7 comes along.
And by the way, I actually thought the shadowed cursor I made looked pretty darn spiffy, considering the limitations... and I used it quite successfully under millions of colors on my old G4 450 for quite some time, so I'm not sure what the thousands of color thing is about... 
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: England, UK
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Jan Van Boghout:
Yeah, Mighty Mouse is well worth its $10. Thanks to it I'm the happy owner of a cursur with drop shadow
Here's another vote for Mighty Mouse (and all the Unsanity products - I actually registered Mighty Mouse, WindowshadeX and FruitMenu, the first shareware I've bought in years and I registered them on the same day I tried them )
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Baninated
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: The Moon
Status:
Offline
|
|
N/M I think I found the info.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top
