>Well, for controls, you shouldn't use my solution. I mean: use MousePointer property of the control. That solution is only for the cases when the mouse cursor must be changed at system level. It's true that it might be the easy solution when you want to change it for many controls/forms and it's too complicate to use VFP's way. But this can be very annoying for the users that work with other apps in the same time.

Hi Vlad - The main reason for your solution, of course, is grid columns, where no other solution works. My rationale here is that once I've set up your solution in a generic way, it's easier to use this method for almost everything, rather than change individual controls using the vfp method...the only one case, as I say, where a user may get stuck with the wrong cursor outside vfp app is when doing an Alt-Tab to move between apps. Maybe I've been lucky, but we have no reports of this after about 6 months of regular use of the application which uses your solution...