Wpf Textbox Cursor on mouse hover

Question

I have a window within my app, this is a small window, but 80% of it is textbox. The annoyance I am having is that when I hover my mouse over the textbox, the cursor remains as an arrow, and I want to set an IBeam.

I have tried:

• setting Property="Cursor" Value="IBeam" in the ResourceDictionary (Style & Style.Triggers)
• setting Cursor="IBeam" explicitly in the window xaml.

I have noticed that if I click the mouse within the textbox, then I see the expected cursor, but nothing will make the hover work.

Is there any other way I can try to set the cursor?

** Edit ** My Textbox has an adorner layer associated to it (I do have IsHitTestVisible = false set for that)

Answer 1

You can try with OnMouseEnter of the textbox event and set the cursor to an IBeam and then reset the cursor to an arrow via OnMouseleave event. Hope it helps.