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Article #2556Re: Changing the mouse arrow
From: Chris Marriott
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 20:30
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 20:30
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In article <1993Jan6.152604.9593@midway.uchicago.edu> epc1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
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>I would like to change the mouse arrow in my application to an hourglass
>or a clock when it's performing a long, cpu intensive calculation in order
>to reassure the user that something is still occuring.
>
>Does anyone know where I can get a public domain pixmap of a hourglass
>or a clock for such an effort?
>
>Thanks.
>
You don't need one - Windows provides one for you! Just say:
HCURSOR hHourGlass = LoadCursor( NULL, IDC_WAIT );
and use that. Refer to the documentation of the "LoadCursor" function for
a list of all the standard cursors which Windows provides.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!chrism.demon.co.uk!chris Subject: Re: Changing the mouse arrow Distribution: world References: <1993Jan6.152604.9593@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: None Reply-To: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19) Lines: 27 Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:30:26 +0000 Message-ID: <726352226snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk