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I'm creating a custom cursor with 'Resorcerer' or 'Rezilla' (it doesn't matter) and drop it into my project.

But when i use

the cursor show up only if I set the "HotSpot" of the Cursor to the very top/left


This works:


And this not:


In the project window the cursor icon is always ok.

That makes no sense to me.
Any ideas?


Using RB 2008r4.1

I had this exact problem when I was using 2005 r1 (I think).

The way I got around it was to create some cursor files on my Windows box (.cur files IIRC) and imported them. They work just as well.

if I use the resource for color cursers "crsr" everything works fine.
But still problems with "CURS"

I have to maintain some older projects with tons of cursers.
Anybody knows what to do?

This is what I found out:
The "HotSpot" is in the last 4 bytes of the resource cursor. If you swap this two byte pairs the cursor will work in REALBasic.

I wrote a little app, that extract "CURS" cursors from a resource file and convert it to REALBasic xml-cursors.
The xml files will have a icon that represent the cursor.

Here is the application including the source code:

exCURS

new in version 1.1:
exCURS except now files with "CURS" resources in the DataFork