Cursor in Win98

[U-96]

Okay, I'm sure I'm missing something really obvious, but I want to change the cursor (i.e. the flashing bit) in MS apps from a single vertical line to something more visible, such as a block cursor. I'm writing an Access app for someone who is visually impaired, so this would really help them locate which field they are in (other than me changing field colour with VBA on each new focus)

U-96

PS Look socalgal, I learned something from that book you suggested! /forum/wink.gif

[Gentle Giant]

In the controll panel there should be mouse stuff.

Sorry! You don't mean the mouse cursor do you.

[This message has been edited by Gentle Giant (edited 11-09-1999).]

[socalgal]

Hi U-96, happy to hear the book is doing right by you!

I took your post as a challenge and tried different ways to change that dang cursor...I tried creating a .cur in several MS programs, tried editing the mouse, and some other things, but none I tried would successfully integrate. At the time was using Win95 and a generic (ie: pretty useless) mouse. All a wash.

A thought would be a mouse that would have the option - and therefore the soft - to create the cursor that would be MS compatible and suit your customer's needs. Or, perhaps there's a special cursor download utility that would facilitate this. A search at www.winfiles.com (http://www.winfiles.com) perhaps?

If nothing turns up soon, I'll look further. This "small" stuff intriques me. Then, it could be in front of my face also..

You know, there's GOT to be a way. /forum/wink.gif

[This message has been edited by socalgal (edited 11-09-1999).]

[U-96]

Thanks socalgal, I'm glad I wasn't being dumb in not being able to find the answer. /forum/smile.gif

It seemed a pretty straightforward issue, but when I started looking for a solution I hit a brick wall. I seem to remember a similar option existed in a DOS console, but can't seem to reproduce that cursor appearance in Windows proper. Thanks for giving it a go!

U-96

[JerseyJoe]

One way to change the cursor is to set the MousePointer property of the object to something other than the default value. However, this only changes the way the pointer looks and not the cursor.

To change the prompt, you could use an edit mask for input and set the PromptChar property to a character other than the "_".


[This message has been edited by JerseyJoe (edited 11-10-1999).]

[reddog4629]

http://www.anicursor.com/moreani.html

[socalgal]

U-96, have you found your cursor answer? I'd like to know..

reddog, that's good link for cursors.

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