import PySimpleGUI as sg

import webbrowser

"""

Demo Cursors

Demonstration of setting an Element's Cursor to use a different cursor than the standard arrow.

Can also change Cursor at the Window level.

If you want no cursor, set the cursor to the string 'none'.

Copyright 2018-2026 PySimpleGUI. All rights reserved.

"""

# Here is a more complete list of cursors you can choose from

cursors = sg.TKINTER_CURSORS

sg.theme('Light Blue 2')

layout = [ [sg.Text('Here is a clickable link for you')],

[sg.Text('Notice how the cursor switches to a "hand" when hover over the link')],

[sg.Text('www.PySimpleGUI.org', font='default 12 underline', text_color='blue', enable_events=True, key='-LINK-')],

[sg.Text('Try out these additional cursors')],

[sg.Text('watch - This makes the spinning-donut-of-death cursor on Windows', key='-WATCH-')],

[sg.Text('fleur - The "Move" cursor', key='-FLEUR-')],

[sg.Text('trek - Beam me up Scotty!', key='-TREK-')],

[sg.Text('none - No cursor at all', key='-NONE-')],

[sg.Text('For touchscreen applications, you may want to turn off the cursor entirely for the windw')],

[sg.Text('Click the Hide Cursor button to turn off at the Window level.')],

[sg.Text('Elements that have specific cursors set will continue to show those cursors')],

[sg.Button('Hide Cursor'), sg.Button('Exit')] ]

window = sg.Window('Cursor Demo', layout, finalize=True)

# Make sure window is finalized first. Then set the cursor

window['-LINK-'].set_cursor(cursor='hand1')

window['-WATCH-'].set_cursor(cursor='watch')

window['-FLEUR-'].set_cursor(cursor='fleur')

window['-TREK-'].set_cursor(cursor='trek')

window['Exit'].set_cursor(cursor='no')

window['-NONE-'].set_cursor(cursor='none')

while True: # Event Loop

event, values = window.read()

print(event, values)

if event in (sg.WIN_CLOSED, 'Exit'):

break

elif event == 'Hide Cursor':

window.set_cursor('none') # special value that hides the cursor entirely

elif event == '-LINK-':

# if the text was clicked, open a browser using the text as the address

webbrowser.open(window['-LINK-'].DisplayText) # accessing DisplayText isn't something you'll see often

window.close()