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LOAD-MOUSE-POINTER ( ) Method
Specifies the mouse pointer to display when the pointer is moved over the widget. If you apply this method to a frame, field group, or window, the same mouse pointer is displayed when it is moved across all child widgets within the frame, field group, or window. However, if you load a different mouse pointer for a child widget, the child widget mouse pointer is displayed when it is moved over that child.
Return Type: LOGICAL Applies To: Browse, Browse-column, Button, Combo-box, Dialog-box, Editor, Field-group, Fill-in, Frame, Menu, Menu-item, Radio-set, Selection-list, Slider, Sub-menu, Toggle-box, Window
pointer-name
A character-string expression that specifies the name of a mouse pointer.
Progress provides a collection of mouse pointers that you can use in graphical applications. Table 56 names and describes each mouse pointer in the collection.
NOTES
- If the mouse pointer is loaded successfully, the method returns TRUE.
- In addition to the mouse pointers that Progress supplies, you can also use a bitmap that you supply that is in the form of a Windows cursor (
.cur
or.ani
) file. To use such a bitmap, substitute the name of the Windows cursor file for pointer-name.- For browse-columns, if you do not specify a mouse pointer, Progress uses the mouse pointer the user specified for the browse.
NOTE: URL pathnames cannot contain the percent symbol (- On Windows, you can specify a URL pathname. If you specify a fully-qualified URL, LOAD-MOUSE-POINTER loads the pointer file directly without searching directories or URLs in PROPATH. Valid URL protocols include HTTP and HTTPS.
%
). If an error exists in a URL specified on the PROPATH, the LOAD-MOUSE-POINTER method continues searching with the next PROPATH entry.- If you specify URL pathnames on the PROPATH and your application repeatedly uses the LOAD-MOUSE-POINTER method with a URL pathname, you can improve performance by using the SEARCH function once to determine the full URL pathname to the directory containing the pointer files. Use this value to create a fully-qualified URL pathname for pointer-name and avoid repeated searches of the PROPATH.
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