Change Mouse Cursor (List)

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Description	This script displays the mouse cursors available on your machine, and allows you to choose one via a drop-down list.
Language	C#.net
Minimum Version	7.2.0+
Created By	Thomas Malloch (BFS)
Contributors	-
Date Created	May 12, 2015
Date Last Modified	May 13, 2015

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using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using Microsoft.Win32; // The 'windowHandle' parameter will contain the window handle for the: // - Active window when run by hotkey // - Window Location target when run by a Window Location rule // - TitleBar Button owner when run by a TitleBar Button // - Jump List owner when run from a Taskbar Jump List // - Currently focused window if none of these match public static class DisplayFusionFunction { //this function lets us tell windows that we changed the cursor [DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)] [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)] static extern bool SystemParametersInfo(uint uiAction, uint uiParam, IntPtr pvParam, uint fWinIni); const uint SPI_SETCURSORS = 0x0057; public static void Run(IntPtr windowHandle) { //this will hold the cursors that the user has installed string[] cursors; //open the registry to get the cursors the user has installed using (RegistryKey regkey = Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(@"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Cursors\Schemes", RegistryKeyPermissionCheck.ReadSubTree)) { //if we couldn't open the registry, tell the user and exit if (regkey == null) { BFS.Dialog.ShowMessageError("Unable to get cursors"); return; } //convert the value into a list cursors = regkey.GetValueNames(); } //sort the cursors to the user can read them better Array.Sort(cursors); //let the user pick which cursor they want string cursor = BFS.Dialog.GetUserInputList("Select Mouse Cursor", cursors); //if they pressed cancel, exit if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(cursor)) return; //this will hold the paths to the cursor files (.cur) string[] cursorPaths; //open the selected registry entry and get the paths using(RegistryKey regKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Cursors\Schemes", RegistryKeyPermissionCheck.ReadSubTree)) { //if we couldn't open the registry, tell the user and exit if (regKey == null) { BFS.Dialog.ShowMessageError("Unable to get cursor paths"); return; } //read the registry path object value = regKey.GetValue(cursor, ""); //the paths are seperated by commas, split up the string cursorPaths = value.ToString().Split(new char[]{','}); } //this is the order than the paths appear in the comma seperated path string[] pathKeys = new string[]{"Arrow", "Help", "AppStarting", "Wait", "Crosshair", "IBeam", "NWPen", "No", "SizeNS", "SizeWE", "SizeNWSE", "SizeNESW", "SizeAll", "UpArrow", "Hand", ""}; //if we don't have enough paths, tell the user and exit if(cursorPaths.Length < pathKeys.Length) { BFS.Dialog.ShowMessageError("Not enough paths"); return; } //open the registry and set the used cursor values to the new ones we found using(RegistryKey regKey = Registry.CurrentUser.CreateSubKey(@"Control Panel\Cursors", RegistryKeyPermissionCheck.ReadWriteSubTree)) { //if we couldn't open the registry, tell the user and exit if (regKey == null) { BFS.Dialog.ShowMessageError("Unable set cursors"); return; } //set each path for(int i = 0; i < pathKeys.Length; i++) regKey.SetValue(pathKeys[i], cursorPaths[i], RegistryValueKind.String); } //tell windows we changed the cursor so it gets updated SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETCURSORS, 0, IntPtr.Zero, 0); } }