changing the cursor

[andrews2004]

When a button is clicked on my form I change the cursor to an hour glass while it is performing various operations.

As long as the cursor is hovering over my form the hourglass cursor is displayed. However, as soon as I move over a different window, the cursor changes.

What I want to do, is set the cursor to the type defined by window which has focus, i.e. my application, rather than that belonging to the particular window that the cursor happens to be moved over.

I'm not sure if this is possible or not, but I would be very grateful if anybody could help me with this.

 

[hilfy]

Set application.cursor.

-Dell

 

[andrews2004]

thanks for your help, but unfortunately the cursor property of application does not seem to exist when i try to set it. I am using D7 professional.

many thanks, andrews2004

 

[whosrdaddy]

Hi,

try this :

procedure test;
  SaveCursor    :TCursor;

begin
 SaveCursor := Screen.Cursor;
 try
  Screen.Cursor:=crHourGlass;
  // do some lenghty operation
  ...
 finally
  Screen.Cursor := SaveCursor;  { Always restore to normal }
 end;
end;

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