Changing a Cursor in a Dialog Box

Some applications, like drawing programs, use various mouse cursors depending on what is going on. Unlike most other libraries, the MFC doesn't make it easy to change a cursor. We will just view an example of doing that.

1. Start Microsoft Visual C++ .Net or MS Visual Studio .Net and create a new MFC Application named ChangeCursor
2. Create it as Dialog Based
3. Design or import two cursors. We will consider that one of cursors has an ID as IDC_CURSOR1 and the other has an ID as IDC_CURSOR2
4. Add two buttons to the dialog box. Change the ID of the first to IDC_FIRST_BTN and its Caption to First. Change the ID of the other to IDC_SECOND_BTN and its Caption to Second
5. Add another button to the dialog box. Change its ID to IDC_DEFAULT_BTN and its Caption to Default
6. Double-click the first button and implement its event as follows:
    

   void CChangeCursorDlg::OnBnClickedFirstBtn() { // TODO: Add your control notification handler code here SetClassLong(m_hWnd, GCL_HCURSOR, (LONG)LoadCursor(AfxGetInstanceHandle(), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDC_CURSOR1))); }

7. Double-click the second button and implement its event as follows:
    

   void CChangeCursorDlg::OnBnClickedSecondBtn() { // TODO: Add your control notification handler code here SetClassLong(m_hWnd, GCL_HCURSOR, (LONG)LoadCursor(AfxGetInstanceHandle(), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDC_CURSOR2))); }

8. Double-click the Default button and implement its event as follows:
    

   void CChangeCursorDlg::OnBnClickedDefaultBtn() { // TODO: Add your control notification handler code here SetClassLong( m_hWnd, GCL_HCURSOR, (LONG)LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW) ); }

9. Test the application
    
10. Close