Re: mouse cursor

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:49:57 -0800

Message-ID:

<0ED99826-89DA-454F-9C9C-124AE42E41E6@microsoft.com>

A lot of it depends. If you are running a worker thread you shouldn't need
a wait cursor. If you do want to wait for the process to complete you
should either not use a worker thread (I.E., do it in line) or use a
progress bar or something like that to indicate progress. The wait cursor
will only stay one while its object is in scope.

I would put a progress bar on the status bar or something like or, if the
operation really needs to complete first, just don't use a worker thread so
the user can't do anything else.

Tom

"Imre Ament" <ImreAment@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F6918E5A-86BB-439E-97C6-AE5498DB5D29@microsoft.com...

Hi,

I want to indicate a long process with egg-timer cursor.
The problem is to it begin on start with the dialog based application.
I start a worker thread from CDialog::OnInit() and want to set mouse
cursor.
It show a short time but changed back to arrow (I guess the system or MFC
set it back).
How can I block this function to stay my egg-timer cursor over my dialog
till I want?

Thanks for any idea
Imre