How to hide the hourglass icon in C# (.NET Compact Framework)

Question

Hi,

does anyone have an idea how to hide the hourglass icon when you execute an application from another?

E.g. App-A with pretty background screen starts App-B. While App-B is loading windows puts this ugly grey block with the rotating hourglass in the middle of App-A.

I have tried calling System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Hide(); but that did not seem to deter windows. It is possible that I did not use it correctly. Any ideas most welcome.

TIA (Thanks in Advance),
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Answer 1

Did you try to set the Cursor.Current property to Cursors to Cursors.Default?

Here you can find the documentation for this property on MSDN and for the Cursor class here.

Answer 2

The fact you're calling it an "hourglass" indicates to me that this is not a Windows Mobile device but instead a generic CE device. Unfortunately the CF loader tells the OS to display the hourglass when it starts up and there is actually no way to prevent that from a CF perspective. You can remove the hourglass cursor altogether in the OS itself if you control the OS, but you can't prevent the CF from showing it if it's there.

Answer 3

Have you tried calling Cursor.Hide before App A starts App B and then unhiding it after the window finishes loading?