Description: I have always disliked the standard Inviso-Drag and Drop cursor. I had hoped it would have been updated in .NET, but we all know the answer to that. I had continued to relying on the old workarounds like painting an image on the control or by having a Label, PictureBox, or combination follow the cursor around the screen. Of course this had flicker and boundary clipping problems that I never liked. Then I saw the xCursor[^] article by Elkay and saw new hope. I soon became obsessed with trying to solve the blue tint problem with converting an alphablended bitmap to a cursor. I spent way too much time searching, thinking there must be an answer out there…somewhere…anywhere. So far I have not come up with a workable solution. I did figure out the blue tint can be switched to a black tint, and that putting an alphablended bitmap on the clipboard suffers the same fate. So if anyone knows a cure for the bitmap “Blues” please enlighten us all. Despite this irritating hitch I still saw the answ
- [VB_example] - Example VB source code controls, inside
File list (Check if you may need any files):
PopCursor
.........\PopCursor
.........\.........\Form1.Designer.vb
.........\.........\Form1.resx
.........\.........\Form1.vb
.........\.........\My Project
.........\.........\..........\Application.Designer.vb
.........\.........\..........\Application.myapp
.........\.........\..........\AssemblyInfo.vb
.........\.........\..........\Resources.Designer.vb
.........\.........\..........\Resources.resx
.........\.........\..........\Settings.Designer.vb
.........\.........\..........\Settings.settings
.........\.........\PopCursor.vb
.........\.........\PopCursor.vbproj
.........\.........\Resources
.........\.........\.........\Nightmare Before Christmas.jpg
.........\.........\.........\Team America.jpg
.........\.........\.........\The Departed.jpg
.........\.........\.........\The Frighteners.jpg
.........\.........\.........\The Machinist.jpg
.........\.........\.........\The Prestige.jpg
.........\.........\.........\V for Vendetta.jpg
.........\PopCursor.sln
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