Global cursor change

[ofiras]

Hi,
Is there any way to change the cursor to Wait cursor globally (that it
will be wait cursor even if it is out of the form)?
Thanks,
Ofir.

 

[Patrice]

From :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.cursors.waitcursor.aspx
inside the Remarks section :

"To make the wait cursor display for the entire application, regardless of
the control or form selected, call UseWaitCursor on the Application class."

 

[ofiras]

From :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.cursors....
inside the Remarks section :

"To make the wait cursor display for the entire application, regardless of
the control or form selected, call UseWaitCursor on the Application class.."

Thanks Patrice, but this is not what I wanted.
I want the cursor to change globally, even if the application is
minimized, or the focus is on another window (which is not part of the
application).
Thanks again,
Ofir.

 

[Peter Duniho]

[...]
I want the cursor to change globally, even if the application is
minimized, or the focus is on another window (which is not part of the
application).

Don't do that. Windows is a multi-tasking operating system. Your
process is never so important that it needs to override the UI state of
other running tasks.

 

[Patrice]

I want the cursor to change globally, even if the application is

minimized, or the focus is on another window (which is not part of the
application).

It doesn't seems to make sense as having your application being busy does
not make all other applications being busy (or if yes, it could be better to
change the app behavior).

You may want to start by checking the Win32 API
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646970(VS.85).aspx) to see if
this is even possible (changing the system cursor being the worst workaround
I can think of)...

 

[Jeff Johnson]

Is there any way to change the cursor to Wait cursor globally (that it
will be wait cursor even if it is out of the form)?

Yes: install Windows 3.1.

Beyond that, Windows is explicitly designed NOT to let you do that.