How to change the appearence of mouse pointer to sand Time

[kapardhi]

Hai I have an MFC application in which i download a binary file into a device. I have a status bar, which tells the progress of download, during this time i want to change the appearence of the mouse pointer to a sand time which is being done in almost all applications , how to do it ? Thanks!

[Code o mat]

BeginWaitCursor()[^] and EndWaitCursor()[^]

> The problem with computers is that they do what you tell them to do and not what you want them to do. <

[K Sushilkumar]

If you are using MFC then try,

BeginWaitCursor();
...
EndWaitCursor();

or

CCmdTarget::BeginWaitCursor();
...
CCmdTarget::EndWaitCursor();

Thanks.

[Stuart Dootson]

[CWaitCursor](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wc7bzytb%28VS.80%29.aspx)[[^](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wc7bzytb%28VS.80%29.aspx)]

[Chandrasekharan P]

u can use SetCursor function

SetCursor(LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_WAIT));

IDC_WAIT is HourGlass

[Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer]

In addition to your other replies, you might be up/downloading the file using some sort of background thread. If the upload takes any length of time, I *hope* you're using a thread to keep your UI responsive. In which case, you will also have to handle WM_SETCURSOR, other wise as soon as the mouse moves, your cursor will go back to normal. Yours-been-bitten-by-this-in-the-past, Iain.

[David Crow]

kapardhi wrote:

...how to do it ?

Simply respond to the WM_SETCURSOR message.

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