Copyright© Kambiz R. Khojasteh. All rights reserved.
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DESCRIPTION

TCursorView is a windowed control for displaying a static or animated cursor on a form. The control uses standard STATIC class of Windows API to show and animate the cursor, and because of that is very small in size.

KEY PROPERTIES

• AutoSize: Boolean
  Determines whether the component is automatically resized to the size of the loaded cursor.
  
  
• BorderStyle: TStaticBorderStyle
  TStaticBorderStyle = (sbsNone, sbsSingle, sbsSunken)
  Determines the appearance of the control’s border.
  
  
• CursorHandle: HCURSOR
  Specifies the handle of the cursor that appears on the control. After assigning a cursor handle to this property clears FileName property.
  
  
• CursorHeight: Integer
  Specifies the vertical size (in pixels) of the cursor.
  
  
• CursorWidth: Integer
  Specifies the horizontal size (in pixels) of the cursor.
  
  
• FileName: String
  Determines the file name of the cursor appears on the control. After assigning a cursor file to this property, CursorHandle property changes to handle of the cursor.
  
  
• ReleaseHandle: Boolean
  If this property is set to true, the component destroys cursor handle when it is no more needed. When this property is false, the application should destroy the handle itself.
  

KNOWN ISSUES

On Delphi 6 and 7 at design time the animated cursors do not animate.

HISTORY

• 1.01 (April 4, 2003)
  - The bug in calculating size of black and white cursors fixed.
  
  
• 1.0 (April 3, 2003)
  - Initial release.
  

LICENSE

TCursorView component is freeware. You may copy component's files AS LONG AS YOU COPY ALL OF THEM. If you want to change the source code in order to improve the component's features, performance, etc. please send me the new source code so that I can have a look at it. The changed source code should contain descriptions what you have changed, and of course your name. The only thing you MAY NOT CHANGE is the ORIGINAL COPYRIGHT INFORMATION.

DISCLAIMER

TCursorView is provided "AS IS" without any warranty of any kind, either express or implied. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the software is with you. The author is NOT liable for any DAMAGES resulting from the use and misuse of the component, especially he is NOT liable for DAMAGES that were caused BY ANY VERSION WHICH HAS NOT BEEN PROGRAMMED BY THE AUTHOR HIMSELF.