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Gav - 06 Nov 2006 17:15 GMT

Hi all,

I have a windows form that creates a background thread to do a long task and
'invokes' back to the form to update the UI (progress bar etc). I would like
to show the 'busy' (Default arrow and waitcursor) cursor as long as my
background thread is still running. Can anyone help me acheive this?

I know it's 2 different problems in one because a) I cannot find the cursor
I want and b) after the function ends that starts the background thread the
application changes back to the default cursor.

Any help would be great, thanks
Gav

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Kevin Spencer - 06 Nov 2006 22:57 GMT

See
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.cursors(VS.80).aspx

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> Hi all,
>
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> Any help would be great, thanks
> Gav

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 06 Nov 2006 23:01 GMT

"Gav" <spam@spam.com> schrieb:

> I have a windows form that creates a background thread to do a long task
> and 'invokes' back to the form to update the UI (progress bar etc). I
> would like to show the 'busy' (Default arrow and waitcursor) cursor as
> long as my background thread is still running. Can anyone help me acheive
> this?

Check out the form's 'UseWaitCursor' property.

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