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Using an animated cursor

Title: Using an animated cursor Question: How do use an animated cursor? Answer: You will first need to get a handle to a Windows cursor and assign it to the TScreen component's Cursors array. Predefined cursors start at a negative index, and user defined custom cursors are assigned positive indexes. The following is an example of a Delphi form that uses an animated cursor: procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var h : THandle; begin h := LoadImage(0, 'C:\TheWall\Magic.ani', IMAGE_CURSOR, 0, 0, LR_DEFAULTSIZE or LR_LOADFROMFILE); if h = 0 then ShowMessage('Cursor not loaded') else begin Screen.Cursors[1] := h; Form1.Cursor := 1; end; end;