I’m setting up a form for my dad to use on his machine in MS Word. I want it to work like the internet, so instead of radio buttons or command buttons, I used a few blue, underlined labels. Now I want the mouse cursor to look like it does when you move over a hyperlink in IE. (The little pointy hand.)
Sadly, the mousepointer property won’t cut it, so I need an image for the mouseicon form property. I did a screen capture, but of course it doesn’t capture the screen.
Anybody know where this image is on my computer?
mouse, of course.
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I couldn’t find one, so I made one. Doesn’t take more than a couple of minutes if you’re familiar with the process.
Download this (huge 365 byte) file:
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~htaw/webhand.cur
Set the MousePointer property to 99 (Custom) and load that .CUR file as the mouse icon.
As far as I know a copy of this cursor isn’t floating around loose on your system (but it could be for all I know). I think it’s an embedded resource in one of the system DLLs. I forget which one.
Hope this helps.
In WinNT, Win2K, Win XP, & Win 2003, all cursors are stored as individual cursor files in %WinDir%\CURSORS. I expect the other earlier flavors of Windows are the same. Moving cursors are .ani files, while static cursors are .cur files.
You can simply do a search on your C-drive for files named *.cur to see what’s available to play with.
The internet pointing hand is called HARROW.CUR.
