New feature: change mouse cursor to pointer when hover

[muriloventuroso]

I don't know if this plugin was designed for desktop and web support, but it works very well on both. However, for these environments it would be interesting for the mouse cursor to be changed to pointer when it is over the link. I use a solution for this in some projects and it might be interesting to implement this plugin.

The extension below can handle the mouse cursor change using the MouseRegion widget:

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter/rendering.dart';

extension HoverExtensions on Widget {

  Widget get showCursorOnHover {
    return MouseRegion(
      child: this,
      // When the mouse enters the widget set the cursor to pointer
      cursor: SystemMouseCursors.click
      // When it exits set it back to default
    );
  }
}

And then just add the extension to the Widget:

Container().showCursorOnHover

[Cretezy]

I own the flutter_cursor library, so I can tell you that this isn't possible right now.

See other issue: https://github.com/Cretezy/flutter_linkify/issues/36

I know Web has been doing many updates with cursor stuff, so I'll take a look when it's more polished, but for now it's still a bit too early

[Cretezy]

It might now be possible with the new Flutter cursor changes. I will investiage

[gsvano]

Hi! Can you check #70? Possible it can help.

[Cretezy]

Fixed with https://github.com/Cretezy/flutter_linkify/pull/70 (release v4.1.0)