[RESOLVED] How to add a cursor resource to my app (VC++ 2010 Express)

[Eri523]

Well, maybe this would be easy if I had the Pro Edition with the integrated resource editor, but unfortunately I only have the Express Edition and tried to add a cursor resource from a .cur file to my app.

What I couldn't get to work:

• Add the .cur file as a file resource to Form1.resX (right click on Form1.resX in the project explorer etc.) and try to construct the Cursor object using the Cursor(Type ^, String ^) constructor as described on MSDN. The resource option as described on the MSDN page for VB .NET and C# doesn't exist for cl. Maybe it could actually be done that way, but then I couldn't figure out how to obtain the correct Type ^ argument for the constructor.
• Add a reference to the .cur file in the .rc file (by editing it manually), invoking the native LoadCursor() and trying the Cursor(IntPtr) constructor.

If I don't mess up my memory now, both of these attempts resulted in the Cursor constructor failing and thus gcnew returning nullptr.

I actually could construct the Cursor object from the .cur file on disk, but as the app consists only of a sole .exe file up to now, I didn't want to add the extra ballast of the .cur file.

I finally resorted to convert the .cur file to a bunch of hex literals (hidden inside the macro in the code below) and construct the Cursor from a MemoryStream constructed from the array<unsigned char>:

System::Void Form1::btnScreenPicker_MouseDown(System::Object^  sender, System::Windows::Forms::MouseEventArgs^  e)
{
  array<unsigned char> ^RawData = {PICKER_CURSOR_RAW_DATA};
  static_cast<Button ^>(sender)->Cursor =
    gcnew System::Windows::Forms::Cursor(gcnew IO::MemoryStream(RawData, false));
}

It works, but I'm not happy with this solution. Is there really no way to do it that's more elegant/straightforward?

TIA for any help.