Questions about cursor functionality

Well, hello everyone. I' m using visual studio and i'm trying to add my own cursor in my project.
Till now, I've added a cursor resource, its ID is IDC_POINTER and in wndclass I've written this

Code:

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wndclass.hCursor      = LoadCursor (hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDC_POINTER)) ;

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The problem is that I also want to change the cursor that appears when for example your write in an edit control ( looks like this " I " ;) )

And one more question. Is there a way so that my cursor appears when I point somewhere out of the client area? (i.e. the sys menu, when I point there the original cursor appears)

This may help in the case of Edit Controls. http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=380650


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Mats

Well, I forgot to mention something important. :)
I'm using win32 api , not MFC.

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Originally Posted by kantze

Well, I forgot to mention something important. :)
I'm using win32 api , not MFC.

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Yes, I sort of understood that from the (small) codesample you posted. But most MFC functionality is fairly well corresponding to Win32 functionality, so I expect that the sample is still valid - however, I think the caret is the wrong type of cursor - that's the flashing black bar that shows where I'm going to type, whilst you want to change the I-shaped mouse-pointer cursor that I'd use to select a bunch of text or some such.

I think you want to put your LoadCursor in the WM_SETFOCUS message handler for your edit control.

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Mats

SetSystemCursor or possibly SetCursor