Help with cursor on textbox

[gojets1721]

I have a textbox where I don't want the cursor to change to insertion cursor; I want it to remain the pointer when hovering over the textbox.

I placed 'screen.MousePointer = 1' in the Move Mouse event of the textbox, which worked.

However, after you hover over that textbox, the pointer cursor is used for everything else from there on out. I only want the insertion cursor to not appear only when hovering over that textbox. Any suggestions on how to accomplish that?

 

[CJ_London]

easiest way is in the section and/or surrounding controls mouseover event return the pointer to whatever it was before

 

[KitaYama]

Do you need to edit the contents of the text box?
If you set the textbox property Enabled=No & Locked=Yes the cursor doesn't change.
You don't need to use code.

 

[gojets1721]

Do you need to edit the contents of the text box?
If you set the textbox property Enabled=No & Locked=Yes the cursor doesn't change.
You don't need to use code.

No, I don't need to edit the contents, but putting Enabled to 'no' then doesn't allow you to double click on the textbox to trigger an event

 

[gojets1721]

easiest way is in the section and/or surrounding controls mouseover event return the pointer to whatever it was before

@CJ_London gotcha. Is there a way to have code to 'reset' it so to speak? Meaning revert back to default where it'll be a pointer or insertion as it normally would be?

 

[gojets1721]

Disregard! It'd be 0 for default

 

[Josef P.]

but putting Enabled to 'no' then doesn't allow you to double click on the textbox to trigger an event

You could put a transparent button over the inactive textbox and use its events.

 

[CJ_London]

if you want to emulate mouseover then take a look at this thread I did a while back

mouseover or hover event

You can use the mousemove event to detect whether the mouse is over a specific control, but you can't tell when it is no longer over the control without using a mousemove or other event such as click from another control or perhaps the section background. But move the mouse quick enough and that...

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note for continuous forms you need to use a completely different method if you only want to highlight a specific control on a specific row