Hand cursor goes to pot

[Laphan]

Hi All

I've taken a standard 'hand with pointing finger' cursor from a WinXP sys,
put in my VB 6 res unit and done a long winded process of doing all my
mouseovers so that the mouse pointer changes to this hand. Works perfect in
WinXP, but run my app in Vista (which amazingly works fine!!) and the cursor
looks like its been eaten up by a dog!

There are just patches of it showing as if it's been resized/resampled
(badly) by Vista.

I have a feeling that its because Vista has a 24x24 (or something like that)
icon set, which XP doesn't really use, and therefore the hand cursror gets
zapped.

I can't rejig the cursor very much due to the resunit's strict format so
does anybody know of a way to get round this?

Thanks

[Lorin]

Here Vista. Roll over...
1) make sure you have the latest video drivers for vista. go to mfr's
website and install. All my rendering problems were solved by updating vista
video drivers.
2) Check your image in something like IconEditPro http://www.iconedit.com/
(free).
3) Convert to bitmap and back.

[expvb]

If you intend to redistribute your application, then use another cursor. VB6
comes with some cursors. See here:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Graphics\Cursors

The files that you are allowed to use are listed here:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\REDIST.TXT