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Tech Off - .NET: Setting A Form's Cursor

Zian Choy — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:42:09 GMT

I wish to set the cursor of a form to Wait and then launch a dialog, and then, when the dialog is done and sends a Finished event to the parent form, to change the cursor back to the Default.

Currently, I use Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor but that doesn't seem to work because when I move the mouse over the parent form while the dialog is visible, the cursor shows up as the Default cursor instead of the Wait cursor. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas for getting the Wait cursor to show up?

I'm using VB .NET but I can take a decent stab at understanding C# code if necessary.

Tech Off - .NET: Setting A Form's Cursor

Tommy Carlier — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:21:44 GMT

Each control (including Form) has a boolean property UseWaitCursor, which you can set to true to use the wait-cursor, or false to use the regular cursor. You could try that one.

Tech Off - .NET: Setting A Form's Cursor

Jorgie — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:23:55 GMT

I think you are looking for:

Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor;

And to reset it:

Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default;

-Jorgie

Tech Off - .NET: Setting A Form's Cursor

Zian Choy — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:38:51 GMT

Jorgie said:
I think you are looking for:

Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor;

And to reset it:

Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default;

-Jorgie

Thanks for all the suggestions. I tried both approaches and found that they don't work. I suspect that there is some sort of bizarre interaction going on because I am using System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker in the progress dialog box to fire the Finished event (absolutely critical when the user hits the cancel button and the form closing <> finished) to the main form.

I have a sneaking suspicion that there's a good reason for the cursor problem but alas, Raymond Chen does not come in a Visual Basic .NET edition.