OpenEuphoria

Re: Colour Cursors

• Posted by Derek Parnell <dparnell at BIGPOND.NET.AU> Sep 08, 2000
• 529 views

The "A" version is for ASCII and the "W" is for Unicode (Wide-characters).

----- Original Message -----
From: "chrissy" <tubby.toast at NTLWORLD.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: Colour Cursors


> Oooh I've got it working!  I downloaded a DLL viewer and found that there
> was no LoadCursorFromFile in user32.dll - but there was a
> LoadCursorFromFileA (which works) and a LoadCursorFromFileW (which
doesn't).
> What's the difference between them and why do you have to go to such
methods
> to find out what they're *actually* called?  Anyway here's a demo for the
> curious.
>
> --begin tested code
> include win32lib.ew
>
> constant
>
> TER),
> main=create(Window,"My Window",0,Default,Default,330,330,0)
>
> atom str, hcursor
> str=allocate_string("mycursor.cur")
> hcursor=c_func(xLoadCursorFromFile,{str})
> free(str)
> trackCursor(hcursor)
>
> procedure onOpen_main()
>     setMousePointer(main,hcursor)
> end procedure
> onOpen[main]=routine_id("onOpen_main")
>
> WinMain(main,Normal)
> --end
>
> chris.
>
> > Oh well, thanks to anyone who had a look at it.  Since this looks too
> > difficult, I thought about loading the cursor from a .cur file instead.
> > However, I haven't managed to get further than this:-
> >
> > include win32lib.ew
> > constant
> >
>
> > ER)
> >
> > For some reason I get an error message saying it can't link to
> > LoadCursorFromFile.  I can't understand it.  I'm using the WinAPI help
> file
> > linked to by the RDS site and that lists this function.  What's going
on?
> >
> > chris.
> >