Am I restricted to the cursor numbers defined in Controls.pas under Delphi 7?

Question

I am using Delphi 7 under Windows 7 to download files.

I want to change the cursor during the download.

I set the Screen.Cursor := crHourG

Answer 1

crHourGlass is of type TCursor, which is an integer alias (more or less). It is an Index that can be used to set a cursor from stock.

You can add cursors using

Screen.Cursors[Number] := ...   needs to be a HCURSOR.

So if you have a handle to a new cursor, you can use that in Delphi.

Note that the crXXX constants an the TCursor type are defined in Controls and the Screen class is defined in Forms. So you can see the code for yourself.