• pygame.cursors.compile - create binary cursor data from simple strings
• pygame.cursors.load_xbm - load cursor data from an xbm file

Pygame offers control over the system hardware cursor. Pygame only supports black and white cursors for the system. You control the cursor with functions inside pygame.mouse.

This cursors module contains functions for loading and unencoding various cursor formats. These allow you to easily store your cursors in external files or directly as encoded python strings.

The module includes several standard cursors. The pygame.mouse.set_cursor - set the image for the system mouse cursor function takes several arguments. All those arguments have been stored in a single tuple you can call like this:

   >>> pygame.mouse.set_cursor(*pygame.cursors.arrow)

This module also contains a few cursors as formatted strings. You'll need to pass these to pygame.cursors.compile - create binary cursor data from simple strings function before you can use them. The example call would look like this:

   >>> cursor = pygame.cursors.compile(pygame.cursors.textmarker_strings)
   >>> pygame.mouse.set_cursor(*cursor)

The following variables are cursor bitmaps that can be used as cursor:

• pygame.cursors.arrow
• pygame.cursors.diamond
• pygame.cursors.broken_x
• pygame.cursors.tri_left
• pygame.cursors.tri_right

The following strings can be converted into cursor bitmaps with pygame.cursors.compile - create binary cursor data from simple strings :

• pygame.cursors.thickarrow_strings
• pygame.cursors.sizer_x_strings
• pygame.cursors.sizer_y_strings
• pygame.cursors.sizer_xy_strings