Question

I’m currently working on camstudio_cl (here if interested).
The problem now is that I have to draw the cursor into a HDC.

This is how it is currently done (shorten):

HCURSOR hcur = GetCursor();
::DrawIconEx( hMemDC, xPoint.x, xPoint.y, hcur, 0, 0, 0, NULL, DI_NORMAL);

The problem is, this only draws a non animated Loading cursor, no matter which cursor is shown on screen.
But if you replace the HCURSOR with an defined HICON, in this case a hand, it works:

::DrawIconEx( hMemDC, xPoint.x, xPoint.y, LoadCursor(IDC_HAND), 0, 0, 0, NULL, DI_NORMAL);

So the problem seems to be the GetCursor() function, but it’s not null and I retrieve a handle.
I also tried to create my own cursor with GetIconInfo and the help of this thread, but I failed. It’s only a black square with some white dots in it.

I hope someone can help me with this.

Answer 1

Thanks to Raymond Chen I got it… just want to have this question answered as marked.

I had to get the global instead of the local cursor handle.

  CURSORINFO pci;
  pci.cbSize = sizeof(CURSORINFO);
  GetCursorInfo(&pci);
  return pci.hCursor;