Changing NSCursor for NSView above an NSTextView

Question

Found a similar question to mine(this), but my issues seems to be a bit more associated with view hierarchy.

I have a NSTextView, then as sibling views, several othe

Answer 1

All you need is to subclass a custom view, override awakeFromNib method, add the custom tracking area for [.mouseMoved, .activeAlways] events: NSTrackingArea Info there. There is no need to override resetCursorRects and/or updateTrackingAreas. All you need is to override mouseMoved method and set the desired cursor there:

Note about discardCursorRects method:

From the docs

You need never invoke this method directly

Xcode 9 • Swift 4

import Cocoa

class CursorChangingView: NSView {

    override func awakeFromNib() {

        addTrackingArea(NSTrackingArea(rect: bounds, options: [.activeAlways, .mouseMoved], owner: self, userInfo: nil))

        wantsLayer = true
        layer?.backgroundColor = NSColor.cyan.cgColor
        layer?.borderColor = NSColor.black.cgColor
        layer?.borderWidth = 1
    }

    @objc override func mouseMoved(with theEvent: NSEvent) {
        NSCursor.pointingHand.set()
    }
}

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