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changing mouse pointer in c

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Greeetings everyone,
I just wanted a bit of help. I am making a program with mouse input it works fine. Now all i need is that I want to load the .cur files. I have already used some XOR And masks they work fine. How can I load the cur file in c.
Regards,
MMM

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Loading custom cursors.

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// If you like you can email me at zorwizard@lycos.com
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// I have several cursors that I have build myself
// thay are in the resource file `Cursors.res’
// I declare them and assign them thus…
//
// Notice these are assigned as a negative integer…
// the system cursors (when I last checked…)
// are valued from -1 through -20, or something like that
// that is why my custom cursors start at -21 and proceed DOWN…

const int crRight = -21;
const int crLeft = -22;
const int crUp = -23;
const int crDown = -24;
const int crThis = -25;
const int cr4Way = -26;

#pragma resource “Cursors.res”

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// Later in my applications (a CAD program) main initialization function
// I use a function called `LoadCursor()’ (From the windows API…
// HInstance (actually `hInstance) is, `Identifies an instance of the
// module whose executable file contains the cursor to be loaded. ‘ and
// the second argument (which is `lpCursorName) is `Points to a null-
// terminated string that contains the name of the cursor resource
// to be loaded.’ The functionreturns a `HCURSOR’ which is a handle
// to the new cursor. Which in my example is stored in an array of
// cursors called `Cursors’, an element of `Screen’ (as you can see…)

Screen->Cursors[crRight] = LoadCursor((void *)HInstance, “RIGHT”);
Screen->Cursors[crLeft] = LoadCursor((void *)HInstance, “LEFT”);
Screen->Cursors[crUp] = LoadCursor((void *)HInstance, “UP”);
Screen->Cursors[crDown] = LoadCursor((void *)HInstance, “DOWN”);
Screen->Cursors[crThis] = LoadCursor((void *)HInstance, “THIS”);
Screen->Cursors[crWhiteX] = LoadCursor((void *)HInstance, “WHITEX”);

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