View Cursor Properties
When an animated cursor is opened, the "View animated cursor properties" page is automatically displayed. You can also access it by clicking on "View cursor properties" in the Tools panel.

This page contains all information about the animated cursor such as title, author, color depth & size, hotspot... Here is a brief explanation about all of these settings:

Cursor Title & Author Name (optional): indicates the title of the cursor and the name of the person who drew its frames. Not all animated cursors contain this information but it is recommended that you enter your name to "protect your creation". Don't forget that animated cursors are intellectual properties of their respective authors.

Color format: indicates the number of colors used in the animated cursor's frames. All frames should have the same color format. You can press the Change button to select another color format as described here.

Images size: indicates the height & width of the cursor's frames. All frames should have the same size. You can press the Change button to select another size as described here.

Hotspot: in Windows cursors, a pixel called the hot spot marks the exact screen location that is affected by a mouse event, such as clicking a mouse button. Typically, the hot spot is the focal point of the cursor. The system tracks and recognizes this point as the position of the cursor. For example, typical hot spots are the pixel at the tip of an arrow-shaped cursor and the pixel in the middle of a crosshair-shaped cursor.

To let you visually set up the hot spot point, AniTuner displays the first frame on which a small red cross is drawn. You can click anywhere on this image to change the hotspot to a new location. The coordinates of the hotspot are then automatically actualized.

Animation info: indicates the number of frames available in the cursor, the duration in seconds approximatively and in jiffies (a jiffy equals a 1/60th of a second).

Test Cursor: pressing this button will change the default mouse cursor to the animated cursor and this lets you see how your cursor works in Windows. The cursor is replaced during 30 seconds but you can immediately come back to the default arrow cursor by pressing the "Test cursor" button again.

Note that Windows only displays 32x32 cursors. Moreover 32-bit icons won't display correctly on Windows 9x/ME/NT4 as these systems do not support alpha transparency introduced with Windows 2000 and XP.