Undocumented code for setting your own cursor

[therealmethuselah]

Not many people will know about this, but instead of using a sprite at mouse_x and mouse_y, GameMaker actually has a built in function to set the cursors sprite.

And it's called cursor_sprite, go figure huh?

I usually set this at the beginning of my game in a Persistant object.

Create Event:
cursor_sprite = sprMyCursor;