The cursor editor allows you to create and edit cursor resources.

An explanation of it's elements:

• New/Open/Save - Create a new font, Load an existing font, Save the current font.
• Import Bitmap - Load a windows bitmap (.bmp) and set it to the current char.
• Undo - Undo the last modification to the char.
• Cut/Copy/Paste - Cut the current char to the clipboard, Copy the current char to the clipboard, Paste to the current char from the clipboard.
• Drawing Tools - Use to draw the chars.
  • Arrow - Turns drawing off.
  • Pen - Plots pixels on the drawing canvas.
  • Line - Draws lines on the drawing canvas.
  • Fill - Fills an area with the current color
  • Circles - Draws a circle on the drawing canvas.
  • Round Rectangles - Draws rounded rectangles on the drawing canvas.
  • Rectangles - Draws rectangles on the drawing canvas.
  • color Grabber - Sets the current color to the color on the drawing canvas where you click the mouse.
• Pen Style - Allows you to draw with special patterns.
• Pen Size - Adjusts the thickness of the brush.
• Char Shifters - Shifts the char up, down, left or right.
• Flip char - Flips the char horizonally or vertically.
• Invert - Inverts the colors of the char.
• Zoom In/Out - Zooms in an out on the char from 1:1 to 16:1. Normal is about 2:1.
• Drawing Surface - The drawing canvas.
• color Palette - Use to select the colors to draw with. White is transparent.
• Selected colors - The colors selected to draw with.
• Swap Selected colors - Swaps the two selected colors with each other.

For more information on cursor resources, look at the overview.

For a complete lesson on using the cursor editor, see the SCI tutorial Editing Cursors.