Changing the mouse pointer

[michelle]

Hello VB.net users,

I tried to change the mouse pointer in vb.net. Can someone show me a source how to do this.

Nice regards,

Michelle.

[RichardAtherton]

Me.Cursor = Cursors. - choose your cursor shape

[michelle]

What do I wrong??

Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Me.Cursor = 1
End Sub
End Class

[deoblo1]

Cursor 1 will not work, it will not compile if you just put a one there. Try putting the name like default or ibeam. also do you have anything like a text box that could change the cursor, I think you may have to change it's cursor proporties also.

[DevGrp]

Try this

Me.Cursor = Cursors.Busy

[michelle]

Thanks all for the information.

Michelle.

[trisuglow]

Just in case anybody doesn't already know this...

If you change the cursor you should always use a Try-Catch-Finally structure so that if something goes wrong the cursor isn't left looking like an hour-glass for evermore.

Try
    Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor
    TreeView1.BeginUpdate()
 
'Write code here to add items to treeview.
 
Catch ex As Exception
    Debug.WriteLine(ex.Message)
Finally
    TreeView1.EndUpdate()
    Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default
End Try