Display Custom Cursor in WPF Application - wpf

Question

I have a set of cursors (.cur files) that I want to use with my WPF/VB.net application, without changing the cursors system-wide. I am assuming that I would somehow use each WPF object's "cursor" property, but I'm not sure how to use my own cursors.
What should I do to accomplish this?

Answer 1

Have you tried using the file path overload to create a cursor?
Cursor cursor = new Cursor("<path>");
Or the stream for that matter?
Once you have a cursor object you can assign it to the controls where it should be shown. (FrameworkElement.Cursor)
If you use the cursor as a resource, e.g. in a cursors folder in your project
you can reference it anywhere in your XAML, e.g.
<Window Cursor="Cursors/wait_il.cur">...

Answer 2

assuming that cursor is in /Resources/ folder and build action is set to Resource:
declare:
<TextBlock x:Key="MyCursor" Cursor="/Resources/grab.cur" />
Then apply to the main window in initializer:
this.Cursor = (FindResource("MyCursor") as TextBlock).Cursor;

Answer 3

Ok since H.B was winging at me here is a class :p
public class CustomCursor
{
private System.Windows.Input.Cursor _cursor = null;
public System.Windows.Input.Cursor Cursor
{
get
{
if (_cursor == null)
_cursor = GetCursor();
return _cursor;
}
}
public string RelativePath { get; set; }
public CustomCursor()
{
}
public CustomCursor(string relativePath)
{
RelativePath = relativePath;
}
public System.Windows.Input.Cursor GetCursor()
{
if (RelativePath == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("You must set RelativePath first");
string directory = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
string absPath = directory + '\\' + RelativePath;
if (!File.Exists(absPath))
throw new FileNotFoundException();
return new System.Windows.Input.Cursor(absPath);
}
}
Use in code behind like this:
this.Cursor = new CustomCursor("grab.cur").Cursor;
Or declare in xaml:
<local:CustomCursor x:Key="MyCursor" RelativePath="grab.cur"/>
And reference like this:
this.Cursor = (FindResource("MyCursor") as CustomCursor).Cursor;