Identifying Cursor States
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 by EYElene | Discussion: New Users
Is there some kind of diagram or pictures showing what the various states are in the theme editor?
Some of them are called different names then when I go into my windows mouse folder and I'm not sure how to assign my graphics.
Reply #2 Wednesday, April 7, 2010 10:41 PM
Thanks for your reply but existing cursors just show the graphic.
It doesn't say what the actual state is.
Reply #3 Saturday, April 10, 2010 7:35 AM
Standard Select : the main cursor that is used
Help Select: when you mouse over a help button, the help select comes up instead of the main cursor
Working in background: a program, or the pc is working in the background so its busy and cannot respond yet.
Busy: very similar to working in background, but a different animation is always nice and helps.
Precision Select: Precision tool for working
Text Select: text cursor mostly used for forums, explorer windows ect. where you would like to start to type something.
Handwriting: when you are in a pentool area, the handwriting cursor will appear.
Unavailable: when you mouse over something that is not available, the unavailable cursor will appear
North Vertical Resize: when you resize a window up or down, this cursor will appear and is for resizing windows.
South Resize (not needed and not skinned)
West Vertical Resize: when you resize a window left to right, this cursor will appear and is for resizing windows.
East Resize: (not needed and not skinned)
NorthWest Resize: when you resize a window by its diagonal angle this cursor appears
NorthEast Resize: as above.
SouthEast Resize (not needed and not skinned)
SouthWest Resize (not needed and not skinned)
Move: when you double click on an item after resizing it in an art program this cursor will appear.
Alternate select: when you mouse over lists.
Hand: appears when you mouse over certain items and names the hand tool uses
Button: cursor appears when you mouse over and or click a button.
Hope that helps. that is my deffinition of the cursor states. If I am wrong, I dont mind being corrected.
Reply #4 Saturday, April 10, 2010 7:39 AM
if your still having issues, Eyelene, open up cursor fx,
click on a cursor you like, and click on the yellow pencil icon on the right, this opens up the editor of cursor fx and shows you the states, and what that cursor does ect.
Reply #6 Saturday, April 10, 2010 8:49 AM
BoXXi throws a sheet over this post so DisturbedComputer can't find it...... Muwahahah. 
Reply #7 Saturday, April 10, 2010 3:35 PM
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this explanation Vampothika!
This helped a lot.
BTW, I love your cursors. Especially the Tiki one. So creative!
Reply #9 Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:47 PM
damn where did this post go 
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Reply #1 Wednesday, April 7, 2010 5:19 AM
Easiest way is to open an existing cursor set and see what was done there. Note: Some of the states in the editor seem to be redundant.