Colored Cusrors

[snarfblam]

Does the .net framework directly support colored mouse cursors?

[PlausiblyDamp]

the msdn link

http://ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwindowsformscursorclasstopic.htm

seems to indicate only Black and White.

[Madz]

But we still have an option to use our Custom Colorful Cursons in our Windows Froms Application

[Diablicolic]

We can change the cursor?! How what?!

[Madz]

Well I guess this would help us adding a new colorful cursor in our application.

[Diablicolic]

Oh cool, do you know how to use the cursor files, like how to make them work on the application? Oh dur...

 

On the form I just remembered there was an icon property, well I'll brb I'm going to check it out. Trying out myself --> MSDN --> Google --> Then I'm back here.

[mutant]

You have to use the Cursor property of your form to set it. You would have to set the custom cursor from code as you cant do it in the designer.

Me.Cursor = New System.Windows.Forms.Cursor("filename, stream or handle to the cursor")

[Diablicolic]

Dangit, just when I figured things out lol.

 

This is what I got:

 

1) Right-click solutions, add either new item (cursor file), or an existing cursor file that you can browse.

 

2) Select the cursor that's on the solution explorer, make the file an embedded source.

 

3) Now if your project name is: Cursorz

And the cursor name in your project is: Cursor1

 

Then this code should work 100%:

 

   Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
       Dim s As System.IO.Stream

       Try
           s = Me.GetType().Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("Cursorz.Cursor1.cur")
           Me.Cursor = New Cursor(s)

       Catch Ex As Exception
           MessageBox.Show(Ex.Message, "No Stream!")

       Finally
           If Not IsNothing(s) Then _
           s.Close()
       End Try

   End Sub

 

BTW I copied this from: Here

[dynamic_sysop]

you dont really need to even add the IO.Stream , here's 2 ways to add the new cursor....

way1 :

MyBase.Cursor = New Cursor(Me.GetType().Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("count_down.Cursor1.cur"))

way2:

MyBase.Cursor = New Cursor(GetType(Form1).Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("count_down.Cursor1.cur"))

hope it helps.

[snarfblam]

Back to the black and white thing... I used code along these lines:

 

me.cursor = new cursor(filename.cur)

 

and even though the file contained a colored cursor, it displayed in black and white. Will using any other methods on this page result in colored cursors?