256 color palette/mouse cursor

[Quoted] My client wants to use a light grey for display only items (that otherwise would look exactly like text items). However, when in 256 color mode in Forms 4.5 only the base 16 colors can be used even though all 256 colors are displayed. You have to use more than 256 colors (such as High Color) to use the entire color palette that Forms 4.5 displays. Has this problem been fixed? Is there a work-around other than using more color resolution (not acceptable).

Having not been able to use the color we wanted, we set out to change the mouse cursor when the mouse is over a display only item. This works great when you use the set_application_property(mouse_cursor) procedure, but the problem is that the client wants the "unavailable" cursor
(Windows 95) to display for display only items instead of the arrow.
This cursor is not supported by the set_application_property() procedure
(the only usable cursor would be crosshair). Are more cursor styles
supported now? If so, starting with what version of Forms?

Having not been able to use the mouse cursor we wanted :?) -- we tried using the ora_ffi package to call the Windows API SetCursor function. We couldn't get it to change the cursor. All of the initilialization seems to work fine (library load, function, parameter registration). Some example code of implementing the SetCursor() API function would be helpful, or if Forms overrides the mouse cursor when it is changed through the API let me know (it works using set_application_property).

Thanks.

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