Colored cursor

[Stonkie]

Here's another pretty tough one!

I want to have a colored cursor in my application, but any cursor I do with colors shows in black and white. I searched some info on the web and I read there is a way to do it using API calls, but which ones and how?

I hope someone fluent in C++/Win32 can help me out on this! Thanks!

 

[srelu]

http://www.codeproject.com/bitmap/ColorCursorFromBmp.asp

I didn't try it so I can't confirm if it will work or not.

BTW, the SetPixel is a dumb way to creare the masks (and very slow), check the comments, there is one with a code using instead monochrome bitmaps.

 

[JohnH]

Dim bmp As New Bitmap(16, 16)
Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(bmp)
g.SmoothingMode = Drawing2D.SmoothingMode.HighQuality
g.FillEllipse(Brushes.Red, New Rectangle(0, 0, 15, 15))
g.Dispose()
Me.Cursor = New Cursor(bmp.GetHicon)
bmp.Dispose()

 

[srelu]

This piece of code is REALLY NICE. I didn't know about the GetIcon method of the bitmap object. Great ideas are always simple ones.

 

[Stonkie]

Great, thanks to both of you! It works perfectly.

JohnH, you're a .NET bible!

 

[Gluttard]

Hey how does one make it so the cursor ANYWHERE is that new cursor, for instance if I set:

Me.Cursor = System.Windows.Forms.Cursors.Hand

Then the cursor only becomes a hand when it is over the form. What can I do to have the cursor be different even when I move the cursor off the form?