Un-Antialiased Hand Cursor in Windows Forms Apps!

Question

Okay, so you know how in Windows Vista and Windows 7 MS changed the Hand Cursor (the one that shows up when you hover over a hyperlink), and added more detail to it so it\'s

Answer 1

This post solves problems of the other posts:

• It respects to the link location and shows the hand just when cursor is on link
• It doesn't flicker on mouse move

You need to change the cursor to system hand cursor. To do so, you need to handle WM_SETCURSOR and check if OverrideCursor is Cursors.Hand then change it to the system cursor by calling SetCursor:

using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Windows.Forms;
public class MyLinkLabel : LinkLabel
{
    const int IDC_HAND = 32649;
    const int WM_SETCURSOR = 0x0020;
    const int HTCLIENT = 1;
    [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
    static extern IntPtr LoadCursor(IntPtr hInstance, int lpCursorName);
    [DllImport("user32.dll", ExactSpelling = true, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
    static extern IntPtr SetCursor(HandleRef hcursor);
    static readonly Cursor SystemHandCursor = 
        new Cursor(LoadCursor(IntPtr.Zero, IDC_HAND));
    protected override void WndProc(ref Message msg)
    {
        if (msg.Msg == WM_SETCURSOR)
            WmSetCursor(ref msg);
        else
            base.WndProc(ref msg);
    }
    void WmSetCursor(ref Message m)
    {
        if (m.WParam == (IsHandleCreated ? Handle : IntPtr.Zero) &&
           (unchecked((int)(long)m.LParam) & 0xffff) == HTCLIENT) {
            if (OverrideCursor != null) {
                if (OverrideCursor == Cursors.Hand)
                    SetCursor(new HandleRef(SystemHandCursor, SystemHandCursor.Handle));
                else
                    SetCursor(new HandleRef(OverrideCursor, OverrideCursor.Handle));
            }
            else {
                SetCursor(new HandleRef(Cursor, Cursor.Handle));
            }
        }
        else {
            DefWndProc(ref m);
        }
    }
}