Changing Mouse Pointer

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Conradish - 21 Jan 2005 20:29 GMT

I'm running Word 2000 and VBA and can't seem to find the way to change the
mouse pointer to an hourglass (per the current active document).

I've create a macro that scans all the lines of the active document, which
may take several seconds, or even a few minutes. I'm proficient in VB6,
however I can't seem to find any Word VBA collection or object that has a
MousePointer property. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

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Peter - 21 Jan 2005 20:39 GMT

> I'm running Word 2000 and VBA and can't seem to find the way to change the
> mouse pointer to an hourglass (per the current active document).
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> however I can't seem to find any Word VBA collection or object that has a
> MousePointer property. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

System.Cursor = wdCursorWait
System.Cursor = wdCursorNormal

But why do that? If the application is processing, it should modify the cursor itself, no?

hth,

-Peter

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Conradish - 21 Jan 2005 23:45 GMT

> But why do that? If the application is processing, it should modify the cursor itself, no?

Doesn't seem to. I did a test, had it loop through a 25 page doc. It never
did change the cursor on it's own. It pretty much used all of Word's
processing to run the macro. (I couldn't work on any other opened doc while
the macro ran).

The Screen.Cursor worked, until I stuck a Doevents in the loop to allow for
some freedom. That seemed to reset the cursor. I was hoping for a way to just
set the cursor for the current window (active doc).

> hth,
>
> -Peter

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Peter - 22 Jan 2005 00:21 GMT

> > But why do that? If the application is processing, it should modify the
> cursor itself, no?
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> some freedom. That seemed to reset the cursor. I was hoping for a way to just
> set the cursor for the current window (active doc).

System.Cursor is the only one I know of.
I suppose you could set it after the doevents, too, but that's starting to get into the realm of kludgey hacks.
What about an API call?
Now we're getting into the realm of diminishing ROI. :-P

-Peter

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Conradish - 22 Jan 2005 02:31 GMT

Yea, I suppose I could do that. I thought I better ask though, in hopes I was
missing something a lot simpler. Thanks for your help though. I did learn
about the Cursor.

> What about an API call?

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