Re: NSCursor to use XcursorImage

[Fred Kiefer]

Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote:
> XcursorImage (Xcursor(3)) support 32bits argb value.
> May be NSCursor can use it. Is anyone working on this?
> Xcursor also support cursor animation, how about new api to support that?

I hadn't noticed these new interfaces up to your mail and they look 
rather promissing. But Keith Packard warns in the man page that the 
interface may still change. Perhaps we should wait until its setteled a 
bit more?

What looks interesting for GNUstep are the theming functions and 
XcursorImageLoadCursor(). We will need to build up our own XcursorImage 
data from NSImage, for this it would be great to have a method in 
GNUstep that generates an NSBitmapImageRep from any given NSImage that 
has non-planat, 8 bit per sample, ARGB format. Or if this is more 
natural for GNUstep at least in RGBA format, than one additional 
function could do the rearrangment of the bits.

Fred