I have a straight Win32 API app (no MFC), and I want to display the wait (hourglass) cursor while certain procedures run because they take a while. I tried something like this:
Code:
SetCursor( LoadCursor( NULL, IDC_WAIT));
// my function
// ...
SetCursor( LoadCursor( NULL, IDC_ARROW));
but even though the "my function" section takes several seconds to execute, I never saw the cursor change. My window definition looks like this:
Code:
	WNDCLASSEX wcex;

	wcex.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX); 

	wcex.style			= CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;
	wcex.lpfnWndProc	= (WNDPROC)WndProc;
	wcex.cbClsExtra		= 0;
	wcex.cbWndExtra		= 0;
	wcex.hInstance		= hInstance;
	wcex.hIcon		= (HICON)LoadImage(GetModuleHandle(NULL), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_SWITCHCONF32),
                         IMAGE_ICON, 32, 32, 0);
	wcex.hCursor		= LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
	wcex.hbrBackground	= (HBRUSH)(COLOR_WINDOW+1);
	wcex.lpszMenuName	= (LPCTSTR)IDC_SWITCHCONF;
	wcex.lpszClassName	= szWindowClass;
	wcex.hIconSm		= (HICON)LoadImage(GetModuleHandle(NULL), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_SWITCHCONF16),
                         IMAGE_ICON, 16, 16, 0);
Am I doing something inherently wrong with these calls, or is this problem more complicated than that?