# Re: function ShowCursor

**URL:** <https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/re-function-showcursor/220>\
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**Created:** [September 23, 2015, 8:48am UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/re-function-showcursor/220 "2015-09-23T08:48:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 8:48am UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/re-function-showcursor/220/1 "2015-09-23T08:48:42Z")

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Dear Josephine,  
  
My pleasure. Just because i needed it.  
In general, we would only add cursors by name that all three platforms  
support. But on Linux there are many as far as i know, so it may not  
be an issue.  
  
The way to go about this would be to learn how this cursor is called  
in the API of each OS. If you could do that research for us, it is a  
tiny effort to add the cursor. Can you open an issue on the  
psychtoolbox github to discuss this further? Thats the best place for  
it.  
  
All the best,  
Dee  
  
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Reuther, Josephine  
\<[j.reuther@...](mailto:j.reuther@...)\> wrote:  

> \> Dear Diederick C. Niehorster,  
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> \> On GitHub, I have seen that you added a new cursor type to the ShowCursor  
> \> function, thank you for this.  
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> \> I was wondering how hard this is. I would like to use the ‘handwriting ‘  
> \> cursor, which is at least available for Windows and OSX. I would truly  
> \> appreciate if you could advise me, or help out integrating this type into  
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> \> Best wishes,  
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> \> Josephine Reuther  
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