LinearBar slider fails to set the cursor

General JUCE discussion
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Hi,
I have been facing problems with setting the mouse cursor for my Linear bar sliders. I can’t even guess what’s going wrong. Please can somebody help me out here.
Here is a piece of code that sets the mouse cursor but still when the UI turns up, the cursor i have set is no where to be seen.


juce::MouseCursor cursor(juce::MouseCursor::LeftRightResizeCursor);

_pCTracking = new juce::Slider(T("Tracking"));
_pCTracking->setSliderStyle( juce::Slider::LinearHorizontal) ;
_pCTracking->setTextBoxStyle( juce::Slider::NoTextBox , false , 0 , 0 ) ;
_pCTracking->setRange(-100.0,100.0,1.0);
_pCTracking->setValue(0.0, false);
_pCTracking->addListener(this);
_pCTracking->setMouseCursor( cursor );
_pCTracking->updateMouseCursor();
addAndMakeVisible(_pCTracking);

_pCTracking1 = new juce::Slider(T("Tracking1"));
//_pCTracking->getValueObject().referTo( _pCTracking1->getValueObject() ) ;
_pCTracking1->setRange(-100.0,100.0,1.0);
_pCTracking1->setValue(0.0,false);
_pCTracking1->setSliderStyle( juce::Slider::LinearBar) ;	
_pCTracking1->setInputRestriction( 3 , "-0123456789" ) ;
//_pCTracking1->setScrollWheelEnabled( false ) ;
_pCTracking1->setSliderSnapsToMousePosition( false ) ;
_pCTracking1->setMouseCursor( cursor );
_pCTracking1->updateMouseCursor();
_pCTracking1->addListener(this);
addAndMakeVisible(_pCTracking1);

The problem that i face here is when I try setting the cursor for linear horizontal sliders it works just fine,
but when I try to do the same for linear bar sliders its never sets it.

I’ll be grateful if someone can help, I am stuck up with this issue for quite sometime now.
Thanks

2

The linear bar style actually contains a big text label, so in fact your mouse is over the label, not the slider, and so it won’t show the slider’s cursor. I guess you could use LookAndFeel::createSliderTextBox to create a box with your custom cursor.

(BTW, please don’t use the T(“”) macro any more - it’s deprecated, and was a terrible idea in the first place!)

3

Thanks for the reply.
I was using that function already in my lookAndFeel but it never came to my mind to set the cursor for the label there. I would like to add that, even if I did not set the cursor for the label in that function, for some linear bar sliders which use the same lookAndFeel had the custom cursor coming up. I am still grateful that, your idea worked, but don’t you think it shouldn’t be that way.
Can you think of another possible work around? I feel that it’s not the problem’s solution.

4

I do agree that it could be better, although I’m not sure how I could easily do that… It’s an interesting point, I’ll ponder on it…

5

There is an interface already to set the Mouse Cursor for the TextBox of the Slider.

/**Sets mouse cursor for text box/label.
*/
void setMouseCursorForTextBox(const MouseCursor& cursor);

I guess this method is being used to set the mouse cursor for the label that the Slider uses internally. But I am sure that this is not working. I have tried it.
But setting the cursor for the label when its created in the lookAndfeel works fine.

6

…huh? That method doesn’t exist in my codebase. And judging by the lack of spaces, I certainly didn’t write it!

7

I am sorry to have replied so late. I was on a vacation. Also the function was added by a colleague here, in order to set the mouse cursor( but it did not work ), so apologies for that as well. Did you get a solution to the problem??

8

Yes, I realised that there should be a special type of cursor which means “use the parent component’s cursor”. I’ll add one shortly.