"Richard Lewis Haggard" wrote:

> The basic problem is that you do not actually have a cursor. You have an
> icon. The hotspot of an icon is always in the middle and you can't do
> anything about that. The solution is a hack that I am particularly proud
> of - make your icon big enough so that its middle hotspot resides where
> you'd like to have the custom cursor's be.
>
> For example, assume that you want to make a custom cursor from a standard
> arrow. Define your actual custom icon to be big enough so that the arrow's
> hot spot is in the middle of the icon. When the custom cursor draws, the
> user will only see your arrow and the remaining 3/4's is all blank.
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> Richard Lewis Haggard
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>
> "A. Foxmore" <AFoxmore@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A2564CDE-66BC-4D15-91A9-5EE38567E0DA@microsoft.com...
> > This is driving me nuts -- I create a cursor at runtime from an Image. The
> > problem is that the Hotspot is always the center of the resulting cursor.
> > There is a Hotspot property on the Cursor class but it's read only.
> >
> > Is there anyway to set the Hotspot of a dynamically created cursor?
> >
> > Thanks!
>
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