How to disable pointing-hand cursor when hovering over [url] BBCode links in RichTextLabel

[SilenceMoon]

Godot Version

4.6.stable

Question

I use native [url]text[/url] BBCode tags on RichTextLabel to make clickable in-game text.

My requirements:

1. Disable the automatic pointing-hand cursor entirely when hovering over url text; always keep default arrow cursor.

Is there any built-in property, project setting or workaround to completely turn off the default hover hand cursor of native [url] tags?

[dragonforge-dev]

Have you read this in the docs about your options and tried them?

Customizing the mouse cursor

[SilenceMoon]

Yes, I’ve already tried setting the mouse cursor, but it still doesn’t work. Even though I handled it in the mouse-enter event for text wrapped with the [url] tag, it still has no effect. I also tried setting it in _process, but that didn’t work either.

[dragonforge-dev]

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@SilenceMoon

but it still doesn’t work

What do you mean by this? Be specific and describe what happens.

@SilenceMoon

Even though I handled it in the mouse-enter event for text wrapped with the [url] tag, it still has no effect. I also tried setting it in _process, but that didn’t work either.

Can you show the code you used? What node did you attach it to? Can you post a screenshot of your scene tree?

[mrcdk]

It’s not possible as it’s hard-coded into the control:

scene/gui/rich_text_label.cpp

In Godot 4.7 there’s Control._get_cursor_shape() but this only works for custom controls and not built-in ones.

You can open an issue in the issue tracker if there isn’t an opened issue yet about this.

[SilenceMoon]

That’s how the original code logic is implemented. It’s a pity that the mouse cursor can’t be customized, but for now we’ll have to leave it as it is.

[dragonforge-dev]

You can hide it and implement your own.