Drag/drop cursors

[Pavel Safrata]

Hi Werner,
the cursors you mention should appear automatically during drag-and-drop 
operation. I think they should not be used manually elsewhere  because 
they are visually informing user about an ongoing drag-and-drop 
operation and using them at different times would be confusing. During a 
drag-and-drop operation the system is in a special mode with inner event 
loop, temporarily holding the dragged data, blocking many other 
features, and the well-known cursors make this clear to the user.

If the cursors don't work for you during DnD, please file a bug. If you 
still think you need the cursors for your mouse events (which I tried to 
explain is a discouraged pattern), you can file feature request and see 
if it is approved (and even technically possible on all platforms).

Thanks,
Pavel

On 25.4.2013 17:08, Werner Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am missing typical cursors during drag/drop, e.g. a deny, add, move, 
> link cursor. Apparently those are not supported in 
> javafx.scene.Cursor. How would this be solved in a 
> platform-independent way?
>
> Best option currently seems to be: use the default cursor, and show 
> some tooltip/popup or unmanaged node below the cursor position to 
> indicate the drop effect to the user. Not really optimal...
>
> I could also use my own drag cursors but they would not fit into all 
> sets of cursors on the supported platforms. If there was at least a 
> way to get an image of the default cursor - then it could be 
> "enhanced" with a small overlay. But that does not seem feasible either.
>
> Werner