Merlin’s Delphi Forge

Animated cursors have become very popular in the days of Windows 3.x. Now they have become a part of Windows 95 and newer. Sometimes you might want to use your own animated cursors instead of the user’s. The idea is same as with “normal” cursors.
Here’s the code:

const
btCursorID1 = 1;
begin
(* sCursorFile - [...]

Delphi sends messages for notification of events that are only applicable to Delphi components. They are like Windows messages in use. If you have a component that publishes the Font property the component probably needs to be repainted if any subproperties in the Font are changed. Changing the Font property does not necessarily generate a [...]