API: Displaying a custom Mouse icon

    Access allows us to display specific mouse pointers by controlling the MousePointer property of the Application object.  However, it does not have the hand pointer (for example) pre-defined.

    Given a local  ICO (icon) file, we can assign it to the Mouse pointer by using the LoadCursor and SetCursor API functions.

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' This code was originally written by Terry Kreft.
' It is not to be altered or distributed,
' except as part of an application.
' You are free to use it in any application,
' provided the copyright notice is left unchanged.
'
' Code Courtesy of
' Terry Kreft
'
Public Const IDC_APPSTARTING = 32650&
Public Const IDC_HAND = 32649&
Public Const IDC_ARROW = 32512&
Public Const IDC_CROSS = 32515&
Public Const IDC_IBEAM = 32513&
Public Const IDC_ICON = 32641&
Public Const IDC_NO = 32648&
Public Const IDC_SIZE = 32640&
Public Const IDC_SIZEALL = 32646&
Public Const IDC_SIZENESW = 32643&
Public Const IDC_SIZENS = 32645&
Public Const IDC_SIZENWSE = 32642&
Public Const IDC_SIZEWE = 32644&
Public Const IDC_UPARROW = 32516&
Public Const IDC_WAIT = 32514&

Declare Function LoadCursorBynum Lib "user32" Alias "LoadCursorA" _
  (ByVal hInstance As Long, ByVal lpCursorName As Long) As Long

Declare Function LoadCursorFromFile Lib "user32" Alias _
  "LoadCursorFromFileA" (ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long

Declare Function SetCursor Lib "user32" _
  (ByVal hCursor As Long) As Long

Function MouseCursor(CursorType As Long)
  Dim lngRet As Long
  lngRet = LoadCursorBynum(0&, CursorType)
  lngRet = SetCursor(lngRet)
End Function

Function PointM(strPathToCursor As String)
  Dim lngRet As Long
  lngRet = LoadCursorFromFile(strPathToCursor)
  lngRet = SetCursor(lngRet)
End Function
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