anti-aliasing a cursor

[Jimg]

Is there some way intrinsic to windows, to use (for example) a circle for a cursor and have windows automatically alpha blend the cursor into the background?
I can make an antialiased circle and save it in a .cur file, but when I use it, it is not blended.
It looks pretty rasty as is.
I can do it all manually, but I don't want to duplicate something that windows can already do.

[Darrel]

Hopefully my reply to a bitmapeditor will be somewhat helpful or encouraging to you.