Setting the drag cursor for Drag and Drop

[scarlon]

Hi all,

I am looking for help with Java's Drag and Drop API. I want to display my own drag cursor to indicate that I am dragging a transferable object from one part of my applet to another. (within the same applet)

I need help with two problems:

1. I find I can create a cursor to look like a tiny version of the image I want to use, but it is limited to 32 X 32 pixels. This is the value I get when I call getBestCursorSize(). Is there a way to drag a bigger cursor around the screen on the Windows NT platform?

2. When I create the cursor described above and pass it to the DragSource.startDrag() method, it appears momentarily on the screen, only to be replaced with the system default drag/drop cursor as soon as the first DropTarget is entered. I think the system is responding to dragEnter() events by setting the cursor, what I don't know is how to override this behavior. I notice that the system cursors are defined in static final methods in DragSource.java. Is there any way to override this default cursor? How do I prevent the resetting of the cursor to this default cursor?

Thanks in advance,

Jim Carlson