Question

Windows Mobile pops up a ‘busy wheel’ – a rotating colour disk – when things are happening . I can’t find in the documentation how this is done – can someone point me in the right direction?

We have a situation where we need to prompt the user to say we’re doing stuff for a while, but we don’t know how long it will take. So we can’t do a progress bar, hence the proposal to use this busy wheel.

Answer 1

Use SetCursor/LoadCursor/ShowCursor APIs, like this:

SetCursor(LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_WAIT));  // my code  ShowCursor(FALSE);