How to load ".cur" and ".ani" in a windows form app and see them all in a grid?

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With ".ani" being animated in the form.

I want to make browsing in folders and seeing their contents of cur and ani.

I just want the way to display cur and ani files.

What I have tried:

pictureBox1.ImageLocation=@"D:\cur1.cur";

it shows me the picturebox with a pic of a red X in it as an error.

Posted 15-Jun-23 8:59am

RobertoSky

Updated 15-Jun-23 17:46pm

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Richard MacCutchan 15-Jun-23 15:07pm

These are cursor images and are different from ordinary png, bmp and jpg types, so you will need an alternative way of displaying them. Google should find you some sample code.

RobertoSky 15-Jun-23 20:05pm

What to search for plz?

Richard MacCutchan 16-Jun-23 3:56am

Seriously? You want to work with two very specific file types and you have no idea what to search for?

RobertoSky 16-Jun-23 3:57am

I searched a lot, I didn't find anything good using my search terms, sorry.

Dave Kreskowiak 15-Jun-23 17:37pm

You have to load and parse .CUR and .ANI files with your own code. None of the built-in controls and classes will do this for you.

RobertoSky 15-Jun-23 20:04pm

Any hints plz?

Dave Kreskowiak 16-Jun-23 0:18am

I have never had the need to do that, so Google is going to be your best bet.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2023-06-15T17:46:00

As Richard has said, .CUR files are cursors: they are the various shapes the mouse pointer can have; and .ANI files are the animated version (spinners and so on).

There is no standard control that can display either of these - you will probably have to write your own code but this may give you a starting point: Animated Cursor-Custom Control[^]