How to change the cursor completely

BushMessiah · February 7, 2024, 6:24pm

Do you even try your own solutions? It’s clear that using that script on a TextButton, ImageButton, or any kind of GUI button in Studio will not work.

2112Jay · February 7, 2024, 6:25pm

Not most of the time … By the time you get back from the studio it’s solved .

amarodjdja · February 7, 2024, 6:25pm

that is exacly what i was trying to say, but well i see, is very complicated to make a custom cursor

BushMessiah · February 7, 2024, 6:26pm

?? what are you talking about it’s solved, it’s not solved lol

BushMessiah · February 7, 2024, 6:27pm

the roblox engine sucks and they forgot to create specific propreties for all different kind of cursors, so when you hover a gui or something it will not work

ekcja1 · February 7, 2024, 6:28pm

Yup. That comment is a truth nuke right there.

amarodjdja · February 7, 2024, 6:32pm

soooo. at this should i do it all manually???, i think is the worst option that i could think of
@BushMessiah

ekcja1 · February 7, 2024, 6:33pm

Well, you could hide the cursor and create a completely new one that follows your mouse every frame. This way you could code it to change its image to whatever you want whenever you’re hovering over something. I believe you could use MouseEnter to check when you’re in or outside the bounds of the gui element if I am not mistaken.

BushMessiah · February 7, 2024, 6:34pm

I don’t know, that’s the only solution I can think of off the top of my head, but I may be wrong. Perhaps someone else will know later on, or maybe Roblox will add new custom properties for the mouse cursor, idk

2112Jay · February 7, 2024, 6:35pm

Well I guess not, in this case … was that hard to understand?

amaro
You can change the mouse to look like anything you wish at any moment.
You would have to set things like hover curser/ some menu cursors
But after everything is set to look the same. it will all look the same.

BushMessiah · February 7, 2024, 6:35pm

that can work too @amarodjdja, i think that’s what other games do

BushMessiah · February 7, 2024, 6:37pm

You cannot change the hovering cursor, that’s not possible, at least under the :GetMouse() function of the engine.

and it would not stay the same, because if you hover something, it will return back to the default roblox cursor for hoovering, it wont stay the custom cursor icon

amarodjdja · February 7, 2024, 6:41pm

i think this could be the best option, now, the problem is, how could i detect when is hovering on something, that i think is the main problem what i think of, cuz yea i can change the cursor id, but the only propitie that i know and we know, is the leave and enter mouse function to change the cursor icon when hovering on something

ekcja1 · February 7, 2024, 6:44pm

As I said, you can use the MouseEnter and MouseLeave events to detect when the mouse begins to hover over a gui and when it stops. Then, you can use the coordinates provided from those events to check what kind of gui you’re hovering over using GetGuiObjectsAtPosition, which will tell you as the name implies which gui objects you’re hovering over.

2112Jay · February 7, 2024, 6:46pm

The clickdetector has a icon setting. I’m sure there is a setting for menu items also.
This is why I was posting ways to control the icon … an attempt to keep it what you want it to be.

Sorry Ikeep posting to you … I meant that to amaro

BushMessiah · February 7, 2024, 6:50pm

Ok but i don’t think hes really worried about the clickdetector hes worried about GUIs buttons, which do NOT have a icon setting

2112Jay:

local button = script.Parent

local NORMAL_CURSOR_ID = Enum.CursorType.Default
local HOVER_CURSOR_ID = Enum.CursorType.PointingHand
local CLICK_CURSOR_ID = Enum.CursorType.Cross

button.MouseEnter:Connect(function()
    button.MouseIcon = HOVER_CURSOR_ID
end)

button.MouseLeave:Connect(function()
    button.MouseIcon = NORMAL_CURSOR_ID
end)

button.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
    button.MouseIcon = CLICK_CURSOR_ID
end)

button.MouseButton1Up:Connect(function()
    button.MouseIcon = NORMAL_CURSOR_ID
end)

That script would not work well with a gui button as it will constantly switch back to the roblox default hovering icon

amarodjdja · February 7, 2024, 6:58pm

yea, im not really worried about the clickdetection, im worried about the GUI stuff, and the more i think of it, the more hard is making a custom cursor, cuz in gui, THERE NO settings, like you say w_bush

2112Jay · February 7, 2024, 6:58pm

I’m guessing here … Not even sure what he was going for. So he wants the curser to never change no matter what menu it’s over? … Right off the bat I’m sure you’ll have problems with default Roblox menus. I’ll take a look at it. Maybe I will find a way, maybe not …

amarodjdja · February 7, 2024, 6:59pm

and the more mad i am at roblox when im thinking of it wawaaa

2112Jay · February 7, 2024, 7:30pm

Seems to be many posts about this. This one sums it up pretty much.
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/how-to-permanently-change-the-default-mouse-icon/272473