Select one of the schemes from the scroll down options. Select the option of Pointers after you have opened Mouse Properties The Mouse Properties opened interfaceĪfter you click on Mouse through Mouse settings, click on Pointers. We will move ahead with the very first and the easiest option that we have included in the first step. After going into the Control Panel, go to Hardware and Sound and click on Mouse. Go into the search bar band type Control Panel. ² Even though the name of the function says that it gets icon info, the documentation notes that it also works for cursors.Access Mouse Settings through the TaskbarĪnother way is to start with the Control Panel. This is not too unreasonable an assumption, because users generally prefer consistency among their cursors, and they are unlikely to choose a set of cursors where, say, the arrow cursor is ten times bigger than the I-beam cursor. ¹ If you aren’t interested in any particular cursor, but rather want to know how big the cursors are “in general”, you could make the assumption that the current set of default cursors consists of cursors that are all roughly the same size, and just measure the arrow cursor. Forgetting to clean up these bitmaps is a common source of GDI resource leaks. You can also use the xHotspot and yHotspot members to tell you how the bitmap is positioned relative to the cursor position.ĭon’t forget to delete the hbmMask and hbmColor bitmaps when you’re done. To identify the pixels that will be drawn, you need to study the mask (color cursors) or top half of the mask (monochrome cursors) and look for the black pixels.
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For example, the bitmaps for the I-beam cursor may be 32 × 32, but on the screen, the I-beam cursor is tall and skinny. Now, the sizes of the bitmap tell you the nominal size of the mouse cursor, but that’s not the same as the apparent size. Interpreting these bitmaps is a bit tricky.įor color cursors, the hbmMask and hbmColor bitmaps are the same size, each of which is the size of the cursor.įor monochrome cursors, the hbmMask is twice the height of the cursor (with the AND mask on top and the XOR mask on the bottom), and there is no hbmColor. The bitmaps that are used to draw the cursor are available as the hbmMask and hbmCursor. Once you have your HCURSOR, you can call GetIconInfo² to obtain information about it. For example, if you are interested in the size of the arrow cursor, you can call LoadCursor(nullptr, IDC_ARROW).¹ In order to answer the question “What is the size of the mouse cursor?” you first have to specify which mouse cursor you are interested in, in the form of an HCURSOR. We learned last time that the SM_ CXCURSOR tells you the size the mouse cursor would have been in some hypothetical universe, which doesn’t really help you find out what the size of the cursor is in the current universe based in reality. This is, however, just a correlation there is no requirement that the two values be aligned with each other in any way.
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The SM_ CXICON system metric gives you the size of “standard” icons, which is loosely correlated with the size of the mouse cursor, in the sense that people who choose bigger icons tend also to choose bigger mouse cursors. They called GetSystemMetrics( SM_CXICON), but the value that was returned didn’t seem to be right.
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A customer wanted to know how to find out the size of the mouse cursor.