C# Winforms - change cursor icon of mouse

c# winforms cursor mouse
saman picture saman · May 25, 2010 · Viewed 58k times · Source

How to change cursor icon to the 'busy icon' usually shown on the desktop? How can i set Animated files (.gif,.ani) instead of cursor ?

Answer

CARLOS LOTH picture CARLOS LOTH · May 25, 2010

Try to do the following:

System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Current = System.Windows.Forms.Cursors.WaitCursor;

More information is available at Cursors Class documentation

Cursor class doesn't support GIF files or animated cursors (.ANI). You can load a custom cursor doing

Cursor.Current = new Cursor("C:\\ic.cur");

Maybe you can convert yout GIF file to cursor format using a tool like Microangelo. In addition, there is another thread related to it.

How do you convert a GIF into a CUR file?

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