Mouse Pointers

R

Roy Lasris

One of the properties options for a command button is a great big list of
different types of mouse pointers that will display when the cursor is run over
the button. As luck would have it, the one that I want (the "hand" -- or maybe
better, the "finger" -- pointer finger, that is) isn't in the list. As
ubiquitous as the finger is in daily operation, I am curious (1) why it's not
one of the choices and (2) can I still call it via "Custom Pointer (#99).

Thanks,
 
W

Word Heretic

G'day (e-mail address removed) (Roy Lasris),

1) MS do not have a Q process worth discussing

2) WTF R U talking about Willis? :)


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Roy Lasris reckoned:
 
R

Roy Lasris

I'll speak more slowly.

I have created a UserForm via VBA for Word. On the UserForm, I have placed a
button. I want to assign a particular mouse style to become active when I hover
over the button. I don't want the default cursor (the arrow that points
top-left) or any other ones listed. Rather I want the cursor that looks like
the little hand with the index finger extended that I see in just about every
program with which I have worked. It simulates that the button over which the
cursor is hovering is ready to be pushed.

When I click the Properties screen associated with the button, one of the
options is "MousePointer." I figured that's where I would find the 'hand' that
I am looking for. Underneath that option is a list of optional mouse styles.
None of them are what I want.

How can I get the mousepointer that I want to show when the cursor hovers over
that button?
 
W

Word Heretic

G'day (e-mail address removed) (Roy Lasris),

<shrugs> AFAIK you cant use anything but what's there. Sorry for being
so thick.

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Roy Lasris reckoned:
 
K

Keith Miller

Set the mousepointer property to custom and the MouseIcon to "C:\windows\cursors\h_arrow.cur"

Keith
 
J

Jean-Guy Marcil

Hi Keith,

I think you meant
"C:\windows\cursors\harrow.cur"

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K

Keith Miller

No, I meant h_arrow.cur. It was the first one I found when browsing, but I do have harrow.cur as
well. They seem identical.

Directory of c:\windows\cursors

08/23/2001 06:00 AM 766 harrow.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 766 hcross.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 326 help_i.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 766 help_il.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 766 help_im.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 766 help_l.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 766 help_m.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 326 help_r.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 766 help_rl.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 766 help_rm.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 766 hibeam.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 766 hmove.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 766 hnesw.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 766 hnodrop.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 766 hns.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 766 hnwse.cur
08/23/2001 06:00 AM 766 hwe.cur
04/11/2002 09:47 AM 766 h_arrow.cur
04/11/2002 09:47 AM 766 h_beam.cur
04/11/2002 09:47 AM 766 h_cross.cur
04/11/2002 09:47 AM 766 h_move.cur
04/11/2002 09:47 AM 766 h_nesw.cur
04/11/2002 09:47 AM 766 h_no.cur
04/11/2002 09:47 AM 766 h_ns.cur
04/11/2002 09:47 AM 766 h_nwse.cur
04/11/2002 09:47 AM 766 h_we.cur
26 File(s) 19,036 bytes
0 Dir(s) 23,347,519,488 bytes free


Keith
 
J

Jean-Guy Marcil

Strange!

I do not have any of the "h_..." series.
I guess you have installed something that added a slightly different
variation of the hand series...

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_______________________________________
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P

PathSmart

Actually, gentlemen, and while I thank you greatly, these are not the cursors
of which I speak. The harrow and h_arrow cursors have a half a forearm (and
sleeves) on them. The one I seek is the one with just the hand that is 'cut
off' above the wrist. Hover over any button on this page. That's the cursor I
am seeking. It it the one that (I think) is most commonly associated with a
button push. The h(_)arrow is really more like an arrow (as its name implies.)

Thanks for all of you help, but I am still hoping that I can find the 'hand'

Roy
 
P

PathSmart

Maybe, but it must be going by a different name. That one is not on my system.
I can see icons representing all of the available cursors in my
"c:\windows\cursors" path, and none of them are "the hand." It must be
somewhere else. Very strange.

Thanks for responding.

Roy
 
K

Keith Miller

Open regedit, navigate to this key:

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Cursors"

what is the data for the value named 'hand'?

Keith
 
P

PathSmart

I already looked there, to no avail. There is not an entry for hand, only
Standard, Large and ExtraLarge. Standards value is
",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,," (yep, just a bunch of commas.

Large reads like this
C:\WINDOWS\cursors\arrow_M.cur,C:\WINDOWS\cursors\help_M.cur,C:\WINDOWS\cu
rsors\wait_M.cur,C:\WINDOWS\cursors\busy_M.cur,C:\WINDOWS\cursors\cross_M.
cur,C:\WINDOWS\cursors\beam_M.cur,C:\WINDOWS\cursors\pen_M.cur,C:\WINDOWS\
cursors\no_M.cur,C:\WINDOWS\cursors\size4_M.cur,C:\WINDOWS\cursors\size3_M
..cur,C:\WINDOWS\cursors\size2_M.cur,C:\WINDOWS\cursors\size1_M.cur,C:\WIND
OWS\cursors\move_M.cur,C:\WINDOWS\cursors\up_M.cur

but there is no hand. When I do regular Contro Panel and then mouse and then
Pointers, an entry called "Link Select" displays the correct 'hand.' I tried a
search in the registry for "link select" and "linkselect" but found nothing.

I really do have that hand (the one I have been looking for) visible when I
hover over just about any button, I just cannot figure out where it came from.

Roy
 
K

Keith Miller

Pretty sure the default hand is llinksel.cur. Try searching entire drive(s) for *.cur.

Keith
 
K

Keith Miller

Well, did some googling & it turns out that the default cursors for windows (i.e. scheme = (none))
aren't stored as .cur files, but as resources in user32.dll. You can view & extract them with a
resource editor. Didn't know if you had one so I'm e-mailing you the cursor I extracted.

If you do some googling, you can also use api calls to get the current link select cursor for the
system and display that (in case your user has a custom cursor scheme & you want to be in sync with
his choices).

Keith
 
P

PathSmart

Keith,
Wow. That we really nice of you. Thanks for all the help. I'll do some
reading about this stuff as you suggest. Thanks again.

Roy
 
K

Keith Miller

Your welcome. I know more about cursors than when this discussion started, so we both benefited.
That's the fun of newsgroups!!! :)

Keith
 

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