Adding a cursor

• Add new entry to enum ECursorType in llwindow.h
  • For example, UI_CURSOR_STUFF

Windows

• Create art for Windows
  • Go into indra/newview/res
  • Duplicate toolopen.cur
  • Name new file something like toolstuff.cur
  • Visual Studio > View > Resource View
  • Right-click newViewRes.rc > Cursor
  • Add Resource...
  • Import...
  • Select toolstuff.cur
  • Edit the cursor using Visual Studio bitmap tools
  • Open Properties view
  • Click on name IDC_CURSOR_6
  • Rename to "TOOLSTUFF"
• Link to Windows code
  • Add to llwindowwin32.cpp, LLWindowWin32::initCursors()
  • mCursor[UI_CURSOR_TOOLSTUFF] = loadColorCursor(TEXT("TOOLSTUFF"));

Mac

• Create art for Mac
  • indra/newview/cursors_mac
  • duplicate UI_CURSOR_TOOLOPEN.tif
  • Save cursor as 32-bit TIFF
• Link to Mac code
  • Edit llwindowmacosx.cpp cursorIDToName()
  • Add "UI_CURSOR_TOOLSTUFF"

Linux

• Create art for Linux
  • indra/newview/res_sdl
  • duplicate toolopen.BMP
  • save as 24-bit BMP
  • Alpha is color-keyed to 200, 200, 200
• Link to code
  • Edit llwindowsdl.cpp LLWindowSDL::initCursors()
  • mSDLCursors[UI_CURSOR_TOOLPLAY] = makeSDLCursorFromBMP("toolplay.BMP",0,0);
  • Hot-spot is hard-coded in above function call