Create a semi-transparent cursor from an image

Question

Is it possible to create a cursor from an image and have it be semi-transparent?

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Answer 1

On the top of my head (I would try that first):

1. create new bitmap with same size as original, but with ARGB structure
2. drawimage: existing bitmap to the new bitmap
3. access raw bitmap data, and replace A bytes with 128

You should have nice semitransparent bitmap there.

If performance allows, you can scan for fully transparent pixels and set A to zero for them!