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How to add animated cursor (ANI) to an application?

A standard situation: I'd like to add *.ani cursor file into resources and then use it. But it's not that easy as seems to be. At least VS6 and VS7 won't help us a lot in this case.

You can see yourself that you couldn't add this file in project resourses without confusing. After some iterations what I found out is - it is better to make everything manually:

A. Define ID for the resource in resource.h file:

//resource.h
#define IDR_ANICURSORBUSY 134 //whatever id not used

B. Add next line to the project *.rc file (notice ANICURSOR section name here):

//MyProject.rc
IDR_ANICURSORBUSY   ANICURSOR  "res\\hourglas.ani"

Only this method allows having *.rc file still be browsable in Visual Studio.

To change cursor I use this:

// In the program
// To load file cursor I use this:
HCURSOR hCurBusy = ::LoadCursor(AfxGetInstanceHandle(), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_ANICURSOR));
HCURSOR hCurStandard = ::LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);

//...

// To set at place you need
SetCursor(hCurBusy);

//...

// Revert to standard
SetCursor(hCurStandard);

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