Question

I’m trying to fetch the cursor bitmap in order to compute a snapshot with the mouse cursor.

It works fine with the standard cursor (IE. the arrow) but it fails as soon as the cursor becomes a text cursor.
Basically I’m doing this :

//Fetching the cursor handle
GetCursorInfo( &m_infos );
m_handle = m.infos.hCursor;
//Fetching cursor info
ICONINFO    infos;
HICON   icon = CopyCursor( m_handle );
GetIconInfo( icon, &infos );
BITMAP  bitInfos;
if ( GetObject( infos.hbmColor, sizeof( bitInfos ), &bitInfos ) == 0 )
{
    qDebug() << "Error N:" << GetLastError();
}

The problem is, GetObject() AND GetLastError() return 0… so i’m not abble to know which is the error…

I’m running this code on Win7, using QtCreator and MingW.

Any idea, clue, would be much appreciated !!
Thanks a lot in advance !

Answer 1

There is no “text cursor”. It’s called a caret, and it’s dealt with totally differently than the mouse pointer. See Using Carets on MSDN for more info.