How to change the cursor to a watch in GTK for C?

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Erwin J. picture Erwin J. · Apr 21, 2012 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

I'm using the C-style GTK functions in C++ and I can't figure out how to set the cursor for the main window.

Answer

idefixs picture idefixs · Apr 21, 2012

Use gdk_set_cursor()

(https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-Windows.html#gdk-window-set-cursor)

on a GdkCursor created by gdk_cursor_new()

(https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-Cursors.html)

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