# Hovering over a fiducial is no longer PointingHandCursor

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/hovering-over-a-fiducial-is-no-longer-pointinghandcursor/4364>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 11, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/hovering-over-a-fiducial-is-no-longer-pointinghandcursor/4364 "2018-10-11T17:50:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![jamesobutler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jamesobutler/32/7511_2.png) [@jamesobutler](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jamesobutler)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/hovering-over-a-fiducial-is-no-longer-pointinghandcursor/4364/1 "2018-10-11T17:50:25Z")

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Using the current Slicer nightly 4.9.0-2018-10-09 when hovering over a placed fiducial it no longer shows the Qt [PointingHandCursor](http://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.8/qt.html#CursorShape-enum) type. It maintains the regular arrow cursor type.

In Slicer 4.8.1 it would use the PointingHandCursor. Is this change to be expected or is this a bug? Does this happen for anyone else? I’m on the latest Windows 10 public release.

I discovered this while using fiducial markups in the latest slicer. Other issues I ran into using fiducials I added to the issue tracker.  
[0004627: VTK Errors after pasting copied fiducial in markups module](https://issues.slicer.org/view.php?id=4628)  
[0004628: Unable to move fiducial position with cursor](https://issues.slicer.org/view.php?id=4627)

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/hovering-over-a-fiducial-is-no-longer-pointinghandcursor/4364/2 "2018-10-11T18:13:20Z")

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It is like this since the switch to Qt5/OpenGL2 rendering backend. It is like this in other applications, such as ParaView.

We can switch cursor using `QWidget::setCursor()` but VTK methods do not seem to work anymore.

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/hovering-over-a-fiducial-is-no-longer-pointinghandcursor/4364/3 "2018-10-11T18:16:45Z")

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Thanks for reporting this - I hadn’t use fiducials lately but indeed they are all screwed up.

Do you happen to know when this broke? I have a mac nightly from 2018-08-28 that is not broken.

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/hovering-over-a-fiducial-is-no-longer-pointinghandcursor/4364/4 "2018-10-11T18:17:36Z")

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@lassoan it’s not just the cursor changing, the fiducials are completely non-functional.

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**Author:** ![jamesobutler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jamesobutler/32/7511_2.png) [@jamesobutler](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jamesobutler)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/hovering-over-a-fiducial-is-no-longer-pointinghandcursor/4364/5 "2018-10-11T18:20:11Z")

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Ok, I figured it was due to one of the major updates Qt5/VTK9/etc. I think PointingHandCursor is a bit helpful to know if you can grab an object. This specific thing isn’t a big deal, but I think changing the cursor could help some with usability.

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**Author:** ![jamesobutler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jamesobutler/32/7511_2.png) [@jamesobutler](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jamesobutler)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/hovering-over-a-fiducial-is-no-longer-pointinghandcursor/4364/6 "2018-10-11T18:26:35Z")

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Regarding issue 4628 of not being able to move a placed fiducial with cursor, I only have a Windows nightly package from 2018-08-17 and it wasn’t an issue there. Not sure when it started to happen either. I attempted to post that as a note to the issue tracker, but it prevented me from posting thinking I was spam for so many actions within a certain time period 😆