Using Custom Colored Cursors in a C# Windows Application [closed]

Answer 1

I also tried something different and it seems to work with different colored cursors, but the only problem with this piece of code is that the Hotspot coordinates for the mouse cursors are not exact i.e. the are moved slightly to the right. But this can be fixed by considering an offset in the code.

The code is as follows:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace MID
{    
    public partial class CustomCursor : Form
    {
        [DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
        public static extern IntPtr LoadCursorFromFile(string filename);

        public CustomCursor()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            Bitmap bmp = (Bitmap)Bitmap.FromFile("Path of the cursor file saved as .bmp");
            bmp.MakeTransparent(Color.Black);
            IntPtr ptr1 = blue.GetHicon();

            Cursor cur = new Cursor(ptr1);
            this.Cursor = cur;

        }
    }
}