force waitcursor

[veerleverbr]

Hi,

In my VB.NET code, at a certain moment I set the cursor to the
hourglass:

Cursor = System.Windows.Forms.Cursors.WaitCursor

Then a lot of things happen in my form, but also in other controls on
the form or loaded in memory (but not actually on the form)...
Afterwards, I set my cursor back to normal:

Cursor = System.Windows.Forms.Cursors.Default

But in reality, the cursor changes back to normal way before I want
that.
In the MSDN library they say that this happens when calling
Application.DoEvents, but that's not the case here. I don't have a
single Application.DoEvents in the code in between.

What I would like to know is how I can force the waitcursor to stay
until the moment that I want to set it back to normal?

Any help would be appreciated...

Veerle

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

Hi Veerle,

AFAIK that can happen because of the DoEvents statement, or because other
procedure is setting it back to Default. So, I would simplify your code
removing calls to procedures until you find who is resetting it. I have had
to do that in the past.

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

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Hi,

In my VB.NET code, at a certain moment I set the cursor to the
hourglass:

Cursor = System.Windows.Forms.Cursors.WaitCursor

Then a lot of things happen in my form, but also in other controls on
the form or loaded in memory (but not actually on the form)...
Afterwards, I set my cursor back to normal:

Cursor = System.Windows.Forms.Cursors.Default

But in reality, the cursor changes back to normal way before I want
that.
In the MSDN library they say that this happens when calling
Application.DoEvents, but that's not the case here. I don't have a
single Application.DoEvents in the code in between.

What I would like to know is how I can force the waitcursor to stay
until the moment that I want to set it back to normal?

Any help would be appreciated...

Veerle