Sam Soffes

I’m working on a Mac app that has a color picker in it. Here’s a screenshot:

For this to work, I hide the cursor and have a custom view track your mouse movements. (When I say cursor I mean the pointer on screen you control with your mouse, and when I say mouse I mean your physical input device.) I use a full screen, borderless window and NSTrackingArea to do this. Nothing too crazy there. I do this to avoid dealing with custom a NSCursor since that was a lot more work.

When I show this fullscreen window, I simply call NSCursor.hide() and call NSCursor.unhide() when the window gets dismissed or loses focus. Easy enough.

There was a simple solution though:

override func mouseMoved(with event: NSEvent) {
    // Whatever work I would normally do here

    // Workaround macOS making the cursor huge and unhiding it when you wiggle it violently
    NSCursor.hide()
}

Easy enough. Maybe I should use a custom cursor instead of this craziness?