Making cursor a crosshair

[BrettW]

Hi, I am making a game (a shooting game)

i want the mouse to be a crosshair.

I have tried making the picturebox follow the mouse like this:

 

Private Sub Form1_MouseMove(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles Me.MouseMove
       PictureBox1.Location = MousePosition
   End Sub

 

but the crosshair does not follow the mouse exactly (the crosshair is about 4cm away from cursor???) :confused: :confused: :confused:

Anyone got any Ideas?

Edited November 21, 2009 by BrettW

[PlausiblyDamp]

Using pictureboxes in that way will always be slow unfortunately. Could you not just use a custom cursor instead?

[snarfblam]

Do you need a particularly specific graphic? Windows includes a crosshair cursor by default, which you could specify as the contianing control's cursor.

 

 

someControl.Cursor = Cursors.Cross;