From a post from Zafir Anjum regarding chaning the mouse cursor:



note that simply calling setCursor() doesn't actually change the cursor. The change is delayed till the next mouse click or movement.


This does indeed seem to be the case.

My question is should it then not be possible to turn around post a mouseEvent such as mouseMove. I have tried this by posting Directly to the EventQueue,

and by calling dispatchEvent on the object in question directly. But to no avail.