Change Visio's Mouse Cursor from C#

[Visio Guy]

Anybody know if there is a (hack, I assume) to change the mouse cursor for Visio? There are plenty of mouse events, but nothing for the cursor. I'm guessing it is something that would have to be set often as Visio would continue to "take over", or done via Windows somehow, but I can't find anything via search.

[Paul Herber]

No hack involved, I just use standard Windows API stuff:

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var
  Save_Cursor: TCursor;
begin
    Save_Cursor := Screen.Cursor;
    Screen.Cursor := crHourGlass;
    ... stuff
    Screen.Cursor := Save_Cursor;
end;


P.S. this is Delphi, C# will be very similar.

[Visio Guy]

Thanks Paul, will give it a shot and report back!

[Visio Guy]

Well, now the question is: Does C# have something equivalent to Delphi's TScreen object? I've found nothing so far.

[Jumpy]

If I remember correctly (Had C# in school only for a half year) every(?) component, has a cursor object. So there has to be a cursor class somewhere. I'd look for that.

[Visio Guy]

The .net stuff only applies cursors to components, ie: windows, buttons, text boxes, etc. Visio is none of these, unfortunately.