Change the type of cursor and hide a cursor

12. How do I change the type of cursor and hide a cursor?

Ans: We can change the cursor type by using function _setcursortype( ). This function can change the cursor type to solid cursor and can even hide a cursor. Following code shows how to change the cursor type and hide cursor.

#include 

main( )

{

/* Hide cursor */

_setcursortype ( _NOCURSOR ) ;

/* Change cursor to a solid cursor */

_setcursortype ( _SOLIDCURSOR ) ;

/* Change back to the normal cursor */

_setcursortype ( _NORMALCURSOR ) ;

}