Change mouse cursor over inactive NSWindow

Question

I have subclassed NSWindow and I have a MYWindow class implementing the following method:

-(void)resetCursorRects {
    NSImage *image = [NSImage imageNamed:         


        

Answer 1

I struggled with this problem for a long period of time and I think there is only one way to change mouse cursor over inactive application (over non-foreground window). This is hacky and magic way.

Before calling pretty standard:

[[NSCursor pointingHandCursor] push];

You have to call:

void CGSSetConnectionProperty(int, int, int, int);
int CGSCreateCString(char *);
int CGSCreateBoolean(BOOL);
int _CGSDefaultConnection();
void CGSReleaseObj(int);
int propertyString, boolVal;

propertyString = CGSCreateCString("SetsCursorInBackground");
boolVal = CGSCreateBoolean(TRUE);
CGSSetConnectionProperty(_CGSDefaultConnection(), _CGSDefaultConnection(), propertyString, boolVal);
CGSReleaseObj(propertyString);
CGSReleaseObj(boolVal);

Or if you are using Swift:

Put this in your YourApp-Bridging-Header.h:

typedef int CGSConnectionID;
CGError CGSSetConnectionProperty(CGSConnectionID cid, CGSConnectionID targetCID, CFStringRef key, CFTypeRef value);
int _CGSDefaultConnection();

And then call:

let propertyString = CFStringCreateWithCString(kCFAllocatorDefault, "SetsCursorInBackground", 0)
CGSSetConnectionProperty(_CGSDefaultConnection(), _CGSDefaultConnection(), propertyString, kCFBooleanTrue)