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Description : creates a new mouse cursor using an Icon handle.
Returns the handle of the newly created cursor
Parameters :
-- hIco : HICON
Handle of the icon to use for creating the cursor. It might
come from a TImage or an icon resource. ie:
Image1.Picture.Icon.Handle or
LoadIcon(hInstance, PChar(sCursorName)
-- idxCursor : integer
The index the of the newly create cursor into the Screen.Cursors.
Pass the index you want here. For more info check TCursor and
TScreen.Cursors
-- Control : TControl
The function can set the newly created cursor as the cursor of
a control immediately. Pass the control here or leave it nil
Tested : Delphi 5, Win2K
Uses : Windows, Forms, Controls
Example call :
1. NewCursor(Image1.Picture.Icon.Handle, 1, Form1);
2. NewCursor(Image1.Picture.Icon.Handle, crDrag, nil);
Error checking : ?
Notes : if you load the icon from a resource using something like
hIco := LoadIcon(hInstance, PChar(sCursorName);
you should call
DestroyIcon(hIco);
when you don't need the cursor anymore.
Author : Theo Bebekis - bebekis@otenet.gr
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function NewCursor(hIco: HICON; idxCursor: integer; Control: TControl): HICON;
var
pIcoInfo : PIconInfo;
begin
GetMem(pIcoInfo, SizeOf(TIconInfo));
try
GetIconInfo(hIco, pIcoInfo^);
Result := CreateIconIndirect(pIcoInfo^);
Screen.Cursors[idxCursor] := Result;
if Control <> nil then
Control.Cursor := idxCursor;
finally
FreeMem(pIcoInfo);
end;
end;
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Thessaloniki, Greece
bebekis@otenet.gr
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> Anyone have any code to get at the image of the current cursor as a bitmap?
> I'd like to be able to blit the current cursor to another image.
A fairly straightforward inversion of the logic will let you do that:
procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
var
Icon : TIcon;
begin
if OpenDialog2.Execute then begin
Icon := TIcon.Create;
// load a cursor file, pretend it's an icon
Icon.Handle := LoadCursorFromFile(PChar(OpenDialog2.FileName));
Image1.Picture.Bitmap.Height := Icon.Height;
Image1.Picture.Bitmap.Width := Icon.Width;
Image1.Canvas.Draw(0, 0, Icon);
Icon.Free
end;
end;
procedure TForm1.Button3Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
if SaveDialog1.Execute then begin
// save as bitmap
Image1.Picture.SaveToFile(SaveDialog1.FileName);
end;
end;
Do note: as with Icons, that when you save off the cursor to a bitmap, any
transparency info it may have contained is lost.