Using Animated Cursors in VB6

Using Animated Cursors in VB6

Post by Bob Kimbroug » Sun, 28 Feb 1999 04:00:00



I want my application to use a custom, animated cursor instead of the
standard hourglass.

I can load the animated cursor using LoadCursorFromFile and can set it as
the wait cursor using SetSystemCursor, but how do I change the System's wait
cursor back to the default hourglass?

Any help is appreciated,
Bob

 
 
 

1. Using Animated Cursors in BCB3

OK, Ive already tried everything I can think of and I can't
use *.ani cursors in a resource file.

I would really like to be able to include animated cursors
in some of my projects without having to send along the
*.ani files and have the program look for and load them.

I posted a mesage with a similar title a few weeks ago.
I got some suggestions on using the BC5 resource file
editor to bring animated cursors into a resource file and
then including that file with my BCB3 project.

Well,  I tried using both *.res files and *.rc files, but
I can't seem to "load" from the included file.

When using the "LoadFromResource" command, I get
an error stating "instruction not found", or something
to that effect.

Could someone please give me a step-by-step tutorial
on how to do this?  For example, when I create the
resource file and the cursor is placed in an RCDATA
"folder" and named RCDATA_1, do I load by the
original filename, by RCDATA_1, or by
RCDATA/RCDATA_1?

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