Yes .. both in the code to move the cursor and in the form's Paint event .. the VB documentation says it has three differnt "classes" of zorder .. graphics, labels and images and then stuff like buttons, textboxes, picture boxes etc. It seems this appears to overide everything else.


>>VB is being VERY stubborn here .. I CAN make an OLE contol which has a transparent background and store the mouse cursor image in it and it DOES have a handle .. but it still won't go to the top of the zorder ! This seems to be a classic case of "you can't get there from here !"
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>Are you using SetWindowPos() to set it as always on top?