Theme-Compliant Cursors

Appearance Manager 1.1 introduces cursors that can change appearance with a theme change. In order to be theme-compliant, your program should use these theme-specific cursors whenever possible, instead of the classic black-and-white or color cursors. To obtain theme-compliant cursors, you must use the Appearance Manager to draw cursors in your program, rather than the QuickDraw cursor utilities.

Because the Appearance Manager cursors are color cursors, they currently cannot be set from interrupt time. Therefore, if you support animated cursors that are changed at interrupt time you should continue to use your own cursors for now. The Appearance Manager provides the following functions for specifying theme-compliant cursors:

SetThemeCursor sets the cursor to a version of the specified cursor type that is consistent with the current theme.
SetAnimatedThemeCursor animates a version of the specified cursor type that is consistent with the current theme.