How do I make my own cursor?

How would I make my cursor invisible using java?

• I'm trying to make a JApplet, but I'm having difficulty making the cursor invisible. Does anyone know how to make the cursor invisible?

• Answer:

  This should help: there's a setCursor() method written into Java. from within the applet you can use the MouseMotionListener as suggested before to check and see if it's in the specified area and if so just call this.setCursor( new Cursor( some_empty_icon ) ); and you have what you need. Here's some code where I did something similar, looking for hot spots on an applet: public void mouseMoved( MouseEvent e ){ if( board.changeCursor( e.getX(), e.getY() ) this.setCursor( new Cursor( Cursor.HAND_CURSOR ) ); else this.setCursor( new Cursor( Cursor.DEFAULT_CURSOR ) ); } where board.changeCursor just checked to see whether the mouse was moved to a hot spot or not. hope this helps. If you want to check and see what Cursors are available check out the API. -Joe (Copied from link below)