Here's what Help said about the MousePointer property:

Specifies the shape of the mouse pointer when the mouse is over a particular part of an object at run time. Available at design time and run time.

Syntax

Object.MousePointer[ = nType]

Settings

nType The settings for the MousePointer property are:

Setting Description
0 (Default) Shape determined by the object.
1 Arrow.
2 Cross. A cross-hair pointer.
3 I-Beam.
4 Icon. A small white square within a black square.
5 Size. A four-pointed arrow pointing north, south, east, west.
6 Size NE SW. A double arrow pointing northeast and southwest.
7 Size NS. A double arrow pointing north and south.
8 Size NW SE. A double arrow pointing northwest and southeast.
9 Size WE. A double arrow pointing west and east.
10 Up Arrow.
11 Hourglass.
12 No Drop.
13 Hide Pointer.
14 Arrow.
Remarks

You can use the MousePointer property to indicate changes in functionality as the mouse pointer passes over controls on a form or dialog box. You can set the MousePointer property to 11 (Hourglass or Wristwatch) to indicate that the user should wait for a process to finish.

>I have an application that was written in Visual FoxPro 5 and would like to change the shape of the cursor on the Edit Boxes. It's almost impossible to spot it when you're looking at a screen with 20 to 30 fields, so I would like to make it a square instead of a straight line.
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>Can this be done ?
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>Thanks & All the best