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From: davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: How does one change the arrow cursor permanently?
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.162342.29839@SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 19 Apr 91 16:23:42 GMT
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Reply-To: davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord)
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 (Mark Epperson) writes:
> (Paul Magid) writes:
>>
>>	I have been able to change the cursor for a split second but
>>then it changes back to normal.  How does one make the change permanent I am 
>>sick of the arrow cursor?
>>
>
>This is the correct way to do it:
>
>	if (hWnd)
>		SetClassWord(hWnd, GCW_HCURSOR, hCursor);
>	SetCursor(hCursor);

Ah, just what I wanted to ask about. I thought it would be cute to have
a custom cursor show up in my About Box (a modeless dialog box) so I
used SetClassWord to do it. Worked great until I noticed that I had
changed the cursor for EVERY dialog box in the system. Notice that even
though you are calling it with a window handle of a specific window you
are actually changing the CLASS (in this case all dialog boxes).

So how do I do it without affecting everyone else?

Dave.Lord@SanDiego.NCR.COM