Pygame Set Mouse Cursor from Bitmap

Question

I'm making an image editor using pygame and I was wondering if it was possible to change the mouse cursor to something more suitable (for instance a circle or rectangle) for brushes. Pygame has a really weird way of doing it that I'm not sure would work very well. Is there a way I can write to a bitmap and then use that?

If there is a way to do it with Python generally, that would work too I suppose.

Answer 1

Another option is to simply hide the cursor, load any arbitrary bitmap that you like and draw it every frame where the cursor is.

Answer 2

You can load cursors in PyGame with pygame.cursors.load_xbm -- that's black and white cursors only, of course, a well-documented limitation of PyGame, per its docs (and I quote):

Pygame only supports black and white cursors for the system.

For XBM format docs, see e.g. here. You can prep such files e.g. with the PIL library, per its docs.