The title says it all really, how do you create a .cur (for a mouse cursor), from a GIF file?
What tool or process can I use?
A:
Just change the filetype from .gif to .cur
OR (in case that it is not help)
use IrfanView www.irfanview.com - it have an a converter
Sergey Kuznetsov
2009-01-08 22:56:46
Unfortunately renaming from .gif to .cur didn't work in IE.
Bravax
2009-01-08 23:17:38
IrfanView seems to convert from a cur to a variety of other formats not the other way round.
Bravax
2009-01-08 23:45:24
1. download the ICONStudio2. open the orginal gif file with Adobe Photoshop Elements and save the file twice as normal and interlaced3. copy the image4. open the ICONStudio5. make new icon6. yhen paste the image7. save first as an .ico file8. open the .ico file you just saved as a .curTRY IT
Sergey Kuznetsov
2009-01-08 23:54:39
A:
This discussion might be of help - it reference IrfanView as well as ICONStudio.
splintor
2009-01-08 23:18:57
+2
A:
You need to use a cursor creator, which is pretty much just a bitmap with some header data. I'd use Irfanview if you do not use Visual Studio or what not. If you use Visual Studio, just create a new cursor, and copy and paste the image data right into the editor... I'm sure I could whip up a tool that does this for you on a file basis, but I'm sure they are many tools out there already.
LarryF
2009-01-08 23:20:31
As you say, I copied the gif from paint.net to the editor in visual studio, (after adjusting to make it 32x32), then removed the background.Thanks
Bravax
2009-01-09 00:11:29
A:
I just found a reference to a new tool called IconWorkshop lite which is a plugin for Visual Studio. I thought of this question and figured I'd leave the link here for posterity. I don't know for sure if it will do the job asked in the question...
Jeff Martin
2009-01-28 15:58:44