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MouseRegion does not change the cursor on macOS #171769

@ManuelRauber

Description

@ManuelRauber

Steps to reproduce

  1. Use the provided example to run it as a macOS app.
  2. Move the cursor inside the blue box.
  3. Note that it correctly changes the entries/exits counts, but the mouse cursor is not changed to resizeUpLeft

If you use the example in dartpad.dev it works as expected. The issue only happens on macOS (cannot test on Windows/Linux).

The provided example is from https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/widgets/MouseRegion-class.html with just the cursor field added.

Expected results

I expect that my cursor changes to resizeUpLeft.

Actual results

The cursor is not changing.

Code sample

Code sample
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

/// Flutter code sample for [MouseRegion].

void main() => runApp(const MouseRegionApp());

class MouseRegionApp extends StatelessWidget {
  const MouseRegionApp({super.key});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      home: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(title: const Text('MouseRegion Sample')),
        body: const Center(child: MouseRegionExample()),
      ),
    );
  }
}

class MouseRegionExample extends StatefulWidget {
  const MouseRegionExample({super.key});

  @override
  State<MouseRegionExample> createState() => _MouseRegionExampleState();
}

class _MouseRegionExampleState extends State<MouseRegionExample> {
  int _enterCounter = 0;
  int _exitCounter = 0;
  double x = 0.0;
  double y = 0.0;

  void _incrementEnter(PointerEvent details) {
    setState(() {
      _enterCounter++;
    });
  }

  void _incrementExit(PointerEvent details) {
    setState(() {
      _exitCounter++;
    });
  }

  void _updateLocation(PointerEvent details) {
    setState(() {
      x = details.position.dx;
      y = details.position.dy;
    });
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return ConstrainedBox(
      constraints: BoxConstraints.tight(const Size(300.0, 200.0)),
      child: MouseRegion(
        cursor: SystemMouseCursors.resizeUpLeft,
        onEnter: _incrementEnter,
        onHover: _updateLocation,
        onExit: _incrementExit,
        child: ColoredBox(
          color: Colors.lightBlueAccent,
          child: Column(
            mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
            children: <Widget>[
              const Text('You have entered or exited this box this many times:'),
              Text(
                '$_enterCounter Entries\n$_exitCounter Exits',
                style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.headlineMedium,
              ),
              Text('The cursor is here: (${x.toStringAsFixed(2)}, ${y.toStringAsFixed(2)})'),
            ],
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

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macOS (not working)

2025-07-08_13-56-27.mp4

Web (working)

2025-07-08_14-00-37.mp4

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Flutter Doctor output

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[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.32.4, on macOS 15.5 24F74 darwin-arm64, locale en-GB) [320ms]
    • Flutter version 3.32.4 on channel stable at /Users/manuelrauber/fvm/versions/3.32.4
    • Upstream repository ssh://git@github.com/flutter/flutter.git
    • Framework revision 6fba2447e9 (4 weeks ago), 2025-06-12 19:03:56 -0700
    • Engine revision 8cd19e509d
    • Dart version 3.8.1
    • DevTools version 2.45.1

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