Help with mouse cursors

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Hello...

Can anyone help me with creating mouse cursors that extent across the screen ... I wanted to make a (Cross kinda like in autocad) for regular use... I would not mind having to use cursor XP if i have to ... I would also like to implement this in windows NT ...

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What do you mean by "extend across the screen" ?

You can make your own cursors with Ax-Cursors.
http://axialis.com/download/index.html#axcursors
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
He means like two lines - one horizontal and one vertical, a bit like this crap assci

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One way you could possible do it is to make the two lines very, very long lines (at least twice as long and twice as wide as your screen)

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ah...that didn't look like that when i 'drew' it

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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hmmm... I wonder if that's possible....
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It just occurred to me, that if you had a screenwide cursor, you'd probably be unable to move it.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks for your responses ... I once saw a Light saber cursor XP theme... It was big but i could still move it... I tired making the lines long but I still had to save the *.cur file @ max 32x32... in which case all I got was a small cross box ... Any more suggestions are more then welcome...

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Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Also Ax-cursors makes *.cur or *.ani files that are max 256x256 .... and that does not extend across the screen like the autocad mouse.... thanks for the tip though

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Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Additionally cursors that i create in AX-cursors when used take up A LOT OF CPU AND MEM such that winamp STOPS playing ... (I am running a 800 MHZ 256MB ram Nvidia Geforce 2 GTS) ... It was kind of funny for a while to see NT stuggling ... but then I grew tired of it ... I still dont know how to get those cross hair cursors that will extend from top to bottom and left to right of my screen. AUTOCAD STYLE !!! Any help will be appreciated

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Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yes...
You CAN do screen-wide cross-hairs as cursors...it works [I did it last year], but it's a serious resource-hog...and I'm running a gig of ram and a Geforce 2 32 meg card...
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It DOES look 'cool', though...
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This would probably be better done as a small program. I'm sure you could whip up something that monitored the cursor and moved two always on-top lines around.