Showing hand cursor hovering on links

[nrod]

Hello CEF# team & community.
I use a browser in a windows WPF application to show some web content. I started using CEF# some time ago when the standard Windows browser component became short for my needs. It was a move in the right direction because this one is really good and has what I wanted. Having said this, thanks everyone who contributed to build this component.

I have, however, a situation. When the mouse is over a standard web page link, like in the first image, the cursor is still a pointer and not a hand like in the second image (taken from Chrome). Why is this? Can it be solved?

Thanks in advance for you help and attention.

[amaitland]

Hi,

What version are you using? Does the problem reproduce with https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp.MinimalExample

Cursors are working as expected for me. There was a problem with custom cursors a few versions ago, nothing with version 89 that I'm aware of.

[nrod]

👍🏼 Thank you for your comment and URLs. I will read them and check that possibility. 🤝🏼

[nrod]

@amaitland, I have found the problem. Our application does have several places where we change the cursor. Having commented all these situations I could see the normal cursor behaviour in the browser window.
Just for your information, we call some APIs in several places and we have the next bit of code in all those places (now commented). Although this kind of cursor management was nice, it is not an important issue.

// set the cursor to loading spinner
//Mouse.OverrideCursor = Cursors.Wait;

// call API to get a valid token for this client
ApiResult result = await App.Api.GetAccessToken();

// set the cursor back to arrow
//Mouse.OverrideCursor = Cursors.Arrow;

I also had this code there but honestly can't see what it is needed for...

//private void Browser_LoadingStateChanged(object sender, CefSharp.LoadingStateChangedEventArgs e) {
//    if (!e.IsLoading) {
//        // set the cursor back to arrow
//        Application.Current.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(DispatcherPriority.Background,
//            new Action(() => Mouse.OverrideCursor = Cursors.Arrow));
//    }
//}

Thank you so much for the help!

[amaitland]

If you have any suggestions on how we can support this use case then please let me know. We can add a protected virtual OnCursorChange to allow overriding the default behaviour.

[nrod]

A colleague read somewhere that setting the cursor to a null value would keep the behaviour we want. It is being investigated. This way we could still change the cursor to a spinning wheel and set it back to a default behaviour. Especifically assigning to Cursors.Arrow locks it as an arrow.

// set the cursor back to arrow
Mouse.OverrideCursor = null;

[nrod]

Our final conclusion is that it works fine with this last solution. Changing mouse to Wait , do something and then change it back to null does not cause any side effect on page links (on hover). Once again, thanks for all the help, @amaitland.