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Asked: 2026-06-02T02:27:04+00:00

I’m trying to change the cursor inside my CStatic -derived class by handling OnSetCursor

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I’m trying to change the cursor inside my CStatic-derived class by handling OnSetCursor

class CMyStatic : public CStatic
{
    // ....
};

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMyStatic, CStatic)
    ON_WM_SETCURSOR()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

BOOL CMyStatic::OnSetCursor(CWnd* pWnd, UINT nHitTest, UINT message) 
{
    TRACE(_T("OnSetCursor\n"));
    SetCursor(AfxGetApp()->LoadStandardCursor(IDC_CROSS));
    return TRUE;
}

OnSetCursor gets called every time I move the mouse, but the cursor isn’t changed. What am I doing wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    use ::SetCursor. Or you can call SetCursor once elsewhere and don’t capture WM_SETCURSOR, and the cursor will be set automatically.

    The CWnd::SetCursor you used is for setting a cursor for a window, and that cursor will be used if you don’t override OnSetCursor. That is, the default behavior of OnSetCursor is calling ::SetCursor with the cursor one set by calling CWnd::SetCursor.

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