The solaris implementation of setCursor() works correctly, but as this example demonstrates a mouse movement must occur before setCursor() takes effect under WindowsNT/95.

import java.awt.*;
class CursorTest extends Frame {
    CursorTest() {
add("Center", new Button("change cursor"));
pack();
show();
    }
    public boolean handleEvent(Event e) {
if (e.id == Event.WINDOW_DESTROY) System.exit(0);
if (e.target instanceof Button) {
setCursor(Frame.WAIT_CURSOR);
getToolkit().sync();
System.out.println("wait cursor");
try {
Thread.sleep(2000);
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {}
setCursor(Frame.DEFAULT_CURSOR);
getToolkit().sync();
System.out.println("default cursor");
return true;
}
return false;
    }
    public static void main(String args[]) {
new CursorTest();
    }
}