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>My only suggestion (not tried) would be to use a user exit or windows
>call to change the cursor outside of Forms.
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>Tim
If anyone knows how to do this
please share it with us
John
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>In article <60u2f8$6ld_at_freenet-news.carleton.ca>, Duncan MacGregor
><aa735_at_FreeNet.Carleton.CA> writes
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>>Greetings.
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>>In Oracle Forms 4.5 (part of Developer/2000), I used a WHEN-MOUSE-ENTER
>>trigger to call 'Set_Application_Property' and change the mouse cursor to
the
>>DEFAULT style. Unfortunately, it doesn't work as advertised, at least not
for
>>Text Items.
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>>To be precise, the call:
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>>Set_Application_Property(CURSOR_STYLE, 'DEFAULT');
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>>yields the same effect as the call:
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>>Set_Application_Property(CURSOR_STYLE, 'INSERTION');
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>>which is not what we want.
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>>Any ideas on how to get an arrow cursor -- as the Help indicates we should
be
>>able to get? I have tried:
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>>Set_Application_Property(CURSOR_STYLE, 'ARROW');
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>>which caused a (predictable) run-time error.
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>>Just a puzzled Canadian ...
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>>Duncan MacGregor | aa735_at_freenet.carleton.ca | #include <disclaimer.h>
>>Also at: "http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa735/" | To err is human ...
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>Regards
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>Tim Cromarty
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Received on Sun Oct 12 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT