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From: Jolly Roger on 9 Jan 2010 14:23 In article <4b48d50c$0$8552$ba624c82(a)nntp06.dk.telia.net>, Erik Richard S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > Joseph Mostarda wrote: > > On 2010-01-08 19:37:51 -0800, clw said: > >> Is there any way to change my black cursor to red without changing the > >> colors of everything else on the desk top? > >> > >> Running 10.6.2 on Intel iMac. > > > > There is no way you can alter the cursor in Mac OS X without using > > third-party software. Mighty Mouse is virtually all that exists, and > > while I believe it's been updated for Leopard/Snow Leopard, it has the > > limitation of it only working per login session. That is, if you install > > a custom cursor theme, you have to reset it everytime you log on. > > I was also thinking on MightyMouse, but no, it isnot updated since > 06/02/2009 and the homepage tells that it won't work with Leopard, and > then probably neither on SnowLeopard... > http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/mightymouse Right. But if Mighty Mouse can do it, so can you. You just need to figure out which resources to change, etc. While that may not be something all Mac users can do on their own, the point is it can be done. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Stefan on 9 Jan 2010 15:35 Am 09.01.10 20:23, schrieb Jolly Roger: > Right. But if Mighty Mouse can do it, so can you. You just need to > figure out which resources to change, etc. Actually, it might be more complicated. Back in pre-OSX, the cursor was hard coded in ROM. There was a control panel which even substituted it with an animated cursor, but it did so by using some really dirty tricks. That said, I also think that in OSX the cursor is just some resource file lying around somewhere. But I just believe, I don't know.
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 9 Jan 2010 15:59 Jolly Roger wrote: > In article <4b48d50c$0$8552$ba624c82(a)nntp06.dk.telia.net>, > Erik Richard Sørensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > >> Joseph Mostarda wrote: >>> On 2010-01-08 19:37:51 -0800, clw said: >>>> Is there any way to change my black cursor to red without changing the >>>> colors of everything else on the desk top? >>>> >>>> Running 10.6.2 on Intel iMac. >>> There is no way you can alter the cursor in Mac OS X without using >>> third-party software. Mighty Mouse is virtually all that exists, and >>> while I believe it's been updated for Leopard/Snow Leopard, it has the >>> limitation of it only working per login session. That is, if you install >>> a custom cursor theme, you have to reset it everytime you log on. >> I was also thinking on MightyMouse, but no, it isnot updated since >> 06/02/2009 and the homepage tells that it won't work with Leopard, and >> then probably neither on SnowLeopard... >> http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/mightymouse > > Right. But if Mighty Mouse can do it, so can you. You just need to > figure out which resources to change, etc. While that may not be > something all Mac users can do on their own, the point is it can be done. Of course it can.:-) - I have tried to locate the resources in order to change the colors - also to a dark red, - but so far I've only been able to loacte near to where the resources are in the Finder resources. Next then is to find out the meaning of the color codes. Some resurces's codes are like $55002, $55520 etc. - exactly the same way the fonts being used are 'listed' in the resources and then it's just to find out which codes are for fonts and which for the cursors and which for the colors, and then it's just to find the 5-digit code for red... But that isn't that easy.:-) OK, to me the colors of the cursor, arrows etc. don't mean that much, since I always are running in 'reverse color mode' - i.e. white text on black background, which is the best for my very reduced sight - only apprx. two percent left... - and which then also give me both white cursors and white arrow on the screen. I can add a thing here... Some of the newer and more modern textprocessors now have the capability of changing the blinking insertion mark in a variety of colors. In these apps I've changed the color to a dark blue, which when used in reversed color mode - gives a bright yellow so it is very easy to differ the text from the blinking marks. Some of these apps also now have the capability of adding either one or two points to the thickness, and when the insertion mark is blue/yellow you can't miss it.... - Btw. I also use the color dard blue in my mail and news apps, which in reverse mode give a clear yellow text on the black background, and very much easier for visually impaired to use and rather stressless when you're sitting may hours in front of a monitor now that I have retired and spend much of my time translating applications from English into Danish mostly apps that can be of highly usability for visually impaired and which all (nearly) also support the Apple Speech Recognition system. - So even as a pensioner I have lots to do.:-) Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: nospam on 9 Jan 2010 20:45 In article <d83c4$4b48e881$d9a2ccf9$18492(a)news.hispeed.ch>, Stefan <stefan(a)mus._INVALID.ch> wrote: > > Right. But if Mighty Mouse can do it, so can you. You just need to > > figure out which resources to change, etc. > > Actually, it might be more complicated. Back in pre-OSX, the cursor was > hard coded in ROM. There was a control panel which even substituted it > with an animated cursor, but it did so by using some really dirty tricks. it's not dirty at all, just patch getcursor and patching was completely supported, no hacks needed. unsanity on the other hand, uses hacks to do all sorts of nasty stuff.
From: Bob Harris on 9 Jan 2010 22:46
In article <clw-A70604.19375108012010(a)news.dsl-only.net>, clw <clw(a)ohsu.gov> wrote: > Is there any way to change my black cursor to red without changing the > colors of everything else on the desk top? > > Running 10.6.2 on Intel iMac. > > TIA I use "Mouse Locator" to find my cursor. It does not change the cursors color, but what it does is draw a target around the cursor so you can easily see where the cursor is located. You get to control how long the mouse needs to remain idle before Mouse Locator draws its Target, and for how long the target remains on the screen. I have a 27" iMac, and via Teleport I have mouse control of an 18" and 19" monitor on my adjacent PowerMac G5, plus my MacBook laptop. Mouse Locator allows me to find my mouse on any of those 4 screens. 7,331,840 pixels to loose my mouse in. Bob Harris |