How to manipulate cursor for WinRT UI control as like WPF control?

In this blog post I am going to demonstrate on how to manipulate cursor for WinRT UI control as like in WPF control.

In WPF, you will find a property (Cursor) in UI control which allows you to get/sets the cursor which displays when mouse pointer is over the UI (ex: Textbox) element. Whereas in WinRT environment there is no cursor property for each UI control instead we can manipulate the cursor used by the window using the current core window pointer cursor.

//Gets or sets the cursor used by the window.

Window.Current.CoreWindow.PointerCursor

In the below sample (referred from WinRTXamlToolkit samples) I have manipulated the cursor used by the window when hovering over (pointer entered and pointer exited event) the text block element.

Sample link:

http://www.filedropper.com/app5

 

Code Snippet:

private void txtBlock_PointerEntered_1(object sender, PointerRoutedEventArgs e) { //Store current cursor used by the window m_defaultCursor = Window.Current.CoreWindow.PointerCursor; //Set cursor of current core window Window.Current.CoreWindow.PointerCursor = Cursor; }   private void txtBlock_PointerExited_1(object sender, PointerRoutedEventArgs e) { //Reset pointer cursor on mouse pointer exits Window.Current.CoreWindow.PointerCursor = m_defaultCursor; }

References:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.ui.core.corewindow.pointercursor

http://winrtxamltoolkit.codeplex.com/