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From: ebina@URBANA.MCD.MOT.COM (Eric Bina)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: GetWindowCursor
Message-ID: <9006291703.AA15889@dacapo.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
Date: 29 Jun 90 17:03:23 GMT
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How do I find the Cursor ID for the current cursor in a window?


Basically what a want is to have my cursor disappear if I havn't moved the
mouse for a while, and then reappear when I move the mouse.

I have written a program that I can run which follows mouse motion, and
when the mouse has been at rest for a while will make it disappear by finding
the current window you are in, and setting the cursor in that window
to be transparent with XDefineCursor().  However, when you move the mouse
again I want to restore the original cursor.  Currently I call
XUndefineCursor(), but that just sets the cursor to the X cursor.  I would like
to be able to get the Cursor ID of the cursor in the window the mouse is in
before I do the XDefineCursor() to transparent so I can then reset it properly
later.


Does anyone know of a way to do this?  The cursor ID does not seen to be in the
X Window Attributes structure, nor is it in any of the window hint structures.

Eric Bina
ebina@urbana.mcd.mot.com