Pointer

Description

The image used for the mouse pointer when the pointer is over the specified control.

In the painter

Pointer on the Pointer page in the Properties view.

Value

A string that specifies a value of the Pointer enumerated data type or the name of a cursor file (CUR) used for the pointer.

Values of the Pointer enumerated data type are:

Arrow!
Cross!
HourGlass!
IBeam!
Icon!
Size!
SizeNESW!
SizeNS!
SizeNWSE!
SizeWE!
UpArrow!

Example

The following condition, entered for the Pointer property of every control in a row of expense data, changes the pointer to a column every time the value in the expense column exceeds $100,000. Note that the pointer has no meaning in a printed report. The pointer is for use on the screen display of a DataWindow object:

If(expense 100000, 'pbcolumn.cur', 'arrow!')