Syntax error Can we change the Cursor with Java Swing?

Can we change the Cursor with Java Swing?

Yes, we can change the default cursor representation in Java. Let us first create a button component −

JButton button = new JButton("Button with two borders");

Whenever user will keep the mouse cursor on the above button component, the cursor would change to hand cursor −

Cursor cursor = button.getCursor();
button.setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.HAND_CURSOR));

The following is an example to change the cursor −

Example

package my;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Cursor;
import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.border.Border;
import javax.swing.border.EtchedBorder;
import javax.swing.border.LineBorder;
import javax.swing.border.TitledBorder;
public class SwingDemo {
   public static void main(String args[]) {
      JFrame frame = new JFrame("Demo");
      frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      Border raisedBorder = new EtchedBorder(EtchedBorder.RAISED);
      LineBorder lineBorder = new LineBorder(Color.red);
      TitledBorder titleBorder = new TitledBorder("Demo Title");
      Border border = BorderFactory.createCompoundBorder(lineBorder, titleBorder);
      JButton raisedButton = new JButton("Raised Border");
      raisedButton.setBorder(raisedBorder);
      JButton button = new JButton("Button with two borders");
      button.setBorder(border);
      Cursor cursor = button.getCursor();
      button.setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.HAND_CURSOR));
      Container contentPane = frame.getContentPane();
      contentPane.add(raisedButton,BorderLayout.WEST);
      contentPane.add(button,BorderLayout.EAST);
      frame.setSize(600, 300);
      frame.setVisible(true);
   }
}

Output

The output is as follows. When you will keep the cursor on the button with two borders, then hand cursor will be visible as shown below −

Updated on: 2019-07-30T22:30:26+05:30

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