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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:57:29 +0100
From: Herbert Duerr <hdu@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Adding a new type of cursor on LINUX platform
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On 15.01.2013 11:28, Herbert Duerr wrote:
> On 15.01.2013 09:40, Liang Weike wrote:
>> I want to add a new type of cursor into office. Currently I've finished it on Windows. But when I run it on Linux the new cursor disappears. So how to write #_mask.h and #_curs.h? And does it come from the converted .cur file? If it does, then how to convert?
> 
> I'm afraid the tool that did such conversions is no longer available and
> has to be rewritten.
> 
> The format of these *_mask.h and *_curs.h files are the ones written out
> by X11's XWriteBitmapFile() [1] function. The Windows CUR file format is
> described in [2].
> 
> [1] http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man3/XReadBitmapFile.3.html
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_%28icon_image_file_format%29

FWIW both "imagemagick" and "icotool" can read *.cur files and convert
them to a more common format.

> You'd also need to use the MAKE_CURSOR macro in
>    main/vcl/unx/generic/app/saldisp.cxx
> and
>    main/vcl/unx/gtk/app/gtkdata.cxx

Hope that helps,
Herbert