Problems with Cursors

Question

I have this problem regarding with the cursor. I wanted the cursor to show a wait state (hourglass) when i load some records into the windows forms and return back to default state after the process is done. It seems to be an easy way by just issuing the statement : Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor; before the statements to be executed and then when we are done just set back the cursor to default. This works fine for the first time when that particular menu/button it is associated with is pressed or clicked. When we continue with that application and click on that menu/button again, it just doesn't show the hourglass cursor anymore. I initially thought the problem is that i didn't refresh the screen so i put a this.Refresh() command before the Cursor.Current statement but it just doesn't seems to solve the problem. If anyone knows what is the trick to solve this problem, please help me. Thanks. =CmLaM=

Answer 1

But if that's the case ... how come when the first time the same sequence of statements are executed , it will displayed the hourglass cursor for quite a long time but when it is continuously executed for the second or third time.. it just doesn't seems to display it anymore although i can see the process after the cursor.current = cursors.defaultcursor is executing ..

Answer 2

are you sure that it isn't calling that line of code? it could be calling it but running through the code so fast that the cursor.current = cursors.defaultcursor; line is called before you even notice the cursor change...