Oh, definitely, sure! And I know of a solution already for handling resizing in edit mode from Cyclone, as I pointed. I'm just now finally diving into tcl/tk and trying to better understand how to handle it in Pd and looking for better and easier solutions. I made progress already in handling cursor management in run mode, but I'm afraid it won't be easier than the Cyclone solution for edit mode though :/ again, this involves creating a new window widget that you can assign a cursor to. 

Clicking on the object in edit mode and working with it is also happening in cyclone/comment by the way, and there's lot's of tcl/tk code in there, but managing cursor change for a resize operation does not seem trivial without creating a window so far. Certainly not as trivial as doing it for the run mode as I was able to find out.

anyway, thanks for the input