>>>Hello All,
>>>I want to display an animated cursor during lengthy processes, and ideally restore the previous one on completion, any ideas
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>
>>Hi Pete,
>>
>>Look at what I just posted to Bruce Campbell. The only difference would be in the declaration of LoadCursor().

Instead of
>>DECLARE INTEGER LoadCursor IN Win32API;
>>  INTEGER hInstance, INTEGER hCursor
>>
>>use
>>
>>DECLARE INTEGER LoadCursor IN Win32API;
>>  INTEGER hInstance, STRING @lpfilename

and pass it the name of the ANI file containing the cursor.
>
>Hi George,
>
>Just out of curiosity have you tried this? I tried some of the animated cursor stuff in VFP5 and had problems. Specifically, it worked in development but not in the runtime and was a documented bug. I assume they fixed in VFP6 (SP3?) but I haven't had a need to use it since.

Hey Bill,

See my latest post to Bruce. I wasn't able to get either an ANI or CUR file to display, but referencing a resounce worked just fine. And I don't have a clue as to why. Sorry.