macOS Cocoa cursor

[MacRumoron]

How would I get this cursor without having to save an image of it and putting it inside my app bundle?

Thanks in advance

 

[robbieduncan]

It's not directly available in Cocoa. You can get it to appear in Cocoa apps if you accept a drag with certain masks but that's because the Finder is setting it.

As you can see here it can be set via a Carbon call but not a Cocoa one. Just call the Carbon method.

 

[kainjow]

It's not directly available in Cocoa. You can get it to appear in Cocoa apps if you accept a drag with certain masks but that's because the Finder is setting it.

As you can see here it can be set via a Carbon call but not a Cocoa one. Just call the Carbon method.

No need to go with Carbon. Just setup your NSView like this:

- (NSDragOperation)draggingEntered:(id <NSDraggingInfo>)sender
{
	return NSDragOperationCopy;
}

 

[robbieduncan]

No need to go with Carbon. Just setup your NSView like this:

- (NSDragOperation)draggingEntered:(id <NSDraggingInfo>)sender
{
	return NSDragOperationCopy;
}

That was what I was alluding to when I said "if you accept a drag with certain masks". I assumed the OP was wanting to make this appear in other conditions via a NSCursor set call, which cannot be done, but can via Carbon.

 

[kainjow]

That was what I was alluding to when I said "if you accept a drag with certain masks". I assumed the OP was wanting to make this appear in other conditions via a NSCursor set call, which cannot be done, but can via Carbon.

Ah I see. But it seems like if you were using this cursor outside of a drag, it would be inconsistent UI.

I would be willing to bet that that cursor is available via a private method call as well *tinkers with class-dump*

Edit: this does the job, although it could break in Leopard:

[[NSCursor _copyDragCursor] set];

 

[MacRumoron]

No need to go with Carbon. Just setup your NSView like this:

- (NSDragOperation)draggingEntered:(id <NSDraggingInfo>)sender
{
	return NSDragOperationCopy;
}

this is what i was looking for, thanks everyone