I'm trying to make the mouse disappear and reappear during a full screen slide presentation.

A trick can do the job: make a cursor that is transparent, and assign this cursor to your cursor icon, so it would look like it dissapeared.

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Hey Goran, surprised you didn't get this one

Private Declare Function ShowCursor Lib "user32" (ByVal bShow As Long) As Long

Showcursor 0 ' hide
ShowCursor 1 ' Show

Steve  

Private Declare Function ShowCursor Lib "user32" (ByVal bShow As Long) As Long Private Sub Form_Load()     'Hide the cursor     ShowCursor 0     'Wait 10 seconds     t = Timer     Do: DoEvents: Loop Until Timer > t + 10     'Show the cursor     ShowCursor 1 End Sub

   Hey Steve, yes I know of that one, as it can be seen in this old  topic, where I also posted how to bypass mouse events (they will still exist even if you hide the cursor). But it was overpressed with vbgen's very interesting idea   (look at vbgen's post in that topic), to make cursor bitmap transparent, and I was surprised by the simplicity of the idea, so that is why It was the first thing to suggest. I appreciate if some manage to find a workaround soulution, even if it is the harder way (as in this case).

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Bet you forgot then . Just joking.

I can see the advantage with that being the cursor is only invisible while it is over the form.

I've attached a blank cursor if anyone wants it. Don;t forget to set the mouseicon property and the mousepointer property to 99 - Custom


Steve

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Yes, that is an important advantage for transparent cursor. With ShowCursor API, you would have to use SetCapture/ReleaseCapture API's so you can track mouse movement out of the form and showing cursor...

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Thank you for the help and the bitmap.