Why r the cursors not displayed properly? look in for details

Hello every1,
I have a UserControl, I have to use custom cursors on it. I have some 3D style cursors with some embossed effects. Mind u, these cursors r in 16 bit color(or 256 i dont know but they r colored). In the mouseMove event i have set the cursor properties like

Usercontrol.MousePointer=99 'For custom cursors
and another statement to set the cursor(i dont remember the command, i think its MouseIcon)
It works and the cursor r displayed but they r not the same cursors. I mean the color is gone and they r displayed in full black. Why is this happening. Can any1 help plz.

Vb doesn't seem to handle cursors that have more than 2 colors (black and white), you must either run into a lot of trouble doing it with the windows API, or forget about that idea :p
Unless it's very important for your program, you shouldn't use colored cursors,

Or you can use DX to do it...if that will help you...

:rolleyes:

He's got a UserControl, DX is not gonna help much... but yeah, you can use an Image control or BitBlt :)

For this task I would suggest looking through the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN). I did, and I found a topic which may be of relevance:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/de...sdn_msdn42.asp

Try saving the cursor as an icon, works fine over here.