Microsoft KB Archive/241591

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How To Change the Cursor in a VBCE/eVB Application

Article ID: 241591

Article Last Modified on 8/19/2005

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APPLIES TO

• Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0
• Microsoft eMbedded Visual Basic 3.0

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This article was previously published under Q241591

SUMMARY

This article illustrates how to use the SetCursor and LoadCursor API calls to change the cursor in a Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic(VBCE) application. This approach is necessary because the Screen object in VBCE does not have a MousePointer property. Please note that this code works only on the Windows CE devices with a touch screen and not in the emulation environment.

MORE INFORMATION

'Step by Step Example'

1. Start a new Windows CE project in Visual Basic.
2. Select default device as the target in the properties dialog.
3. Place two command buttons on Form1.

4. Paste the following code into Form1:

   Const IDC_WAIT = 32514
   
   Public Declare Function LoadCursor Lib "Coredll" _
       Alias "LoadCursorW" ( _
       ByVal hInstance As Long, _
       ByVal lpCursorName As Long) As Long
   
   Public Declare Function SetCursor Lib "Coredll" ( _
       ByVal hCursor As Long) As Long
   
   Function WaitCursor(bWait As Boolean) As Long
   
       'Obtain the handle to the cursor
       If bWait Then
           'Get handle to the wait cursor
           hCursor = LoadCursor(0, IDC_WAIT)
       Else
           'Restore default cursor
           hCursor = LoadCursor(0, 0)
       End If
       
       'Set the cursor based on the cursor handle
       WaitCursor = SetCursor(hCursor)
   
   End Function
   
   Private Sub Command1_Click()
       WaitCursor True
   End Sub
   
   Private Sub Command2_Click()
       WaitCursor False
   End Sub
   
   Private Sub Form_Load()
       Command1.Caption = "Hourglass"
       Command2.Caption = "Default"
   End Sub
                       

5. Run the application.
6. Click the command buttons and notice that the cursor changes.

Additional query words: vbce vbce6 wce

Keywords: kbhowto kbtoolkit KB241591

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