Feature Request Please allow us change OS cursor state at runtime

Something that feels incredibly lacking in everything UI related in Unity is the ability to change the cursor depending on certain states. For example, the cursor changing into a little finger when hovering over a button or the caret when hovering over a text box. The editor seemingly supports this as I believe I've seen the option somewhere when debugging elements in the UI debugger. But why not support it at runtime as well?

I hate to bring in other engines but both Godot and (I think) Unreal Engine supports this out of the box. My UI in Godot felt so much more responsive with the cursor changing when hovering over buttons and the like.

I know you can change the cursor to another texture but that is not what I want at all. I use the default cursor 99.9% of the time (and I think most other games do too) so why should we provide all these different cursor textures for these states? And when it comes to cross-platform you have to design specific cursors to fit that OS style if you want to keep it consistent. Or maybe the user has a special cursor due to accessibility reasons and I want to keep that. As we've also seen a lot recently, Unity isn't just for games. It can be created to create tools too and having the cursor change state depending on your action could be really useful for a tool developer.

 

This is defently needed and should be a very low hanging fruit for the Unity dev team.

 

I agree as well. It should be implemented the same way as in CSS - cursor: pointer, cursor: default, etc.