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I'm trying to hide the mouse cursor when I see that it hasn't been moved
for several seconds, and show it again the moment I get a new
WM_MOUSEMOVE message. [I have good reasons for this - this a largely
hands-off "real-time" graphical feedback program, run full screen (well,
I won't remove the cursor if the window isn't full size) and on many
screens I get a very annoying flicker of the cursor during the constant
drawing. Once set up, the user might not operate the mouse for many
minutes at all]] But I don't seem to get WM_MOUSEMOVE messages when the
cursor is over the menu, apparently that is not part of the scheme - a
fairly fatal problem! So I am wondering if someone has any suggestions
how I might accomplish this. I've used a mode where I 'park' the cursor
at the right hand edge of the screen (tho I assume there are
'left-handed' cursors for which I would have to allow) but this is
disruptive to the user's sense of continuity of placement of the cursor,
so I would really like to try simply making it invisible in place. But I
need to know all the time when it has been moved - some other messages
to look at?

I'll be very grateful for your suggestions.
I hope I haven't cross-posted to too many newsgroups - not really sure
which would be most appropriate.

Thank you,


Michael Zarky