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I have a simple NSTextView, which looks like a hyperlink and I want to change the cursor on the pointer when the user hovers this NSTextView. How can I do it? I know about NSCursor, but apple docs suck and have no examples, I cannot get how to use it.

Here is my NSTextView:

let linkView = NSTextView() linkView.font = NSFont(name: "SF Pro Display", size: 13) linkView.isEditable = false linkView.isFieldEditor = false linkView.isHidden = false linkView.string = (URL(string: (data?.link)!)?.host)! let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: linkView.string) let range = NSRange(location: 0, length: linkView.string.count) let url = URL(string: (data?.link)!) attributedString.setAttributes([.link: url!], range: range) linkView.textStorage?.setAttributedString(attributedString) linkView.linkTextAttributes = [.underlineStyle: NSUnderlineStyle.styleSingle.rawValue]
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Add the cursor style to your linking text attributes:

link.linkTextAttributes = [.cursor: NSCursor.pointingHand]
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linkTextAttributes is a property of NSTextView: developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nstextview/…
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Try this, it works for me:

import Cocoa class HyperlinkTextView: NSTextView { private(set) var href: String = "" //MARK: Override override func updateTrackingAreas() { for area in self.trackingAreas { self.removeTrackingArea(area) } self.addTrackingRect(self.bounds, owner: self, userData: nil, assumeInside: false) } override func mouseDown(with event: NSEvent) { super.mouseDown(with: event) if let url = URL(string: self.href) { NSWorkspace.shared.open(url) } } override func mouseExited(with event: NSEvent) { super.mouseExited(with: event) //Added a pointing hand here self.addCursorRect(self.bounds, cursor: .pointingHand) } override func mouseEntered(with event: NSEvent) { super.mouseEntered(with: event) //Back to the system cursor self.removeCursorRect(self.bounds, cursor: .pointingHand) } //MARK: Public func setHref(name: String, link: String) { self.href = link let attrTitle = NSMutableAttributedString.init(string: name) let range = NSMakeRange(0, attrTitle.length) attrTitle.addAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.link : NSURL.init(string: link)!], range: range) attrTitle.setAlignment(NSTextAlignment.center, range: range) self.linkTextAttributes = [ .font: NSFont.systemFont(ofSize: 10.0), .foregroundColor: NSColor.blue, .underlineStyle: NSUnderlineStyle.single.rawValue, ] self.textStorage?.setAttributedString(attrTitle) } }
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