>>I've got a long procedure that runs in the background in which I watch for keypresses. I don't want to show the mouse cursor because mouse clicks don't work. I tried setting mousepointer to 13(none) for all of my objects but as soon as the procedure is launched and you bump the mouse, the hourglass pops to the front.
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>>Is there any way to disable, hide, kill the mouse pointer in a permanent fashion??
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>>Thanks
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>You might need to fiddle with it, but I you can do something like
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>THISFORM.SetAll( "MousePointer", 11 ) && Hourglass icon
>* Run your process
>THISFORM.SetAll( "MousePointer", 0 ) && Default icon
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>Bill

Oops. Sorry. Didn't read you post carefully enough. You don't want the hourglass to appear. I don't really understand this since the hourglass is the universal symbol that says to the user "I'm working so don't bother doing anything". Am I missing something about what you're trying to accomplish?

Bill