Is it possible to get system mouse cursor type? about pynput HOT 4 CLOSED

I have done some preliminary testing on Windows, and the result is positive. The interface I am testing out adds the property pynput.mouse.Listener.cursor, which is of an enum type similar to pynput.mouse.Button.

I have pushed a work-in-progress here if you would like to test it.

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This appears to be somewhat possible on win32, X and OSX.

• On win32, GetCursorInfo combined with LoadCursor could possibly be used.
• On OSX, the currentSystemCursor attribute could be used.
• On X, XFIXES could possibly be used if the rest of the system can be relied upon to set a cursor name.

All in all, this would be quite a lot of work. What is your use case?

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A common interface for getting that info could have been useful. I am primarily concerned with drag actions which may be used to move objects or change window sizes. It would be convenient if the mouse cursor info is available to differentiate those 2 actions.

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I will close this. The implementation turned out to be too unreliable, and impossible to get to work cross-platform.

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