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[ankhd]

Hello all.
Ive googled for the info and yes its talked about, but its a bit vague.

This is what I Have tryed.
I set the windows class cursor to NULL like so
wndclass.hCursor = NULL;, it says to do this to stop windows from changing it back to the default cursor every time the mouse is used.
I then use this bit of code here to load a animated cursor

HCURSOR MainAppPointer = (HCURSOR)LoadImage(NULL,//HINSTANCE hinst,

	 cursorname.c_str(),//LPCTSTR lpszName,

	 IMAGE_CURSOR,//UINT uType,

	 0,//int cxDesired,

	 0,//cyDesired,

	 LR_LOADFROMFILE | LR_DEFAULTSIZE );//UINT fuLoad);

if(MainAppPointer == NULL)

{

MessageBox(Hwnd,"Failed to create cursor", "AppWindow::Create()", MB_OK);

return E_FAIL;

}

I then set the cursor with in the winproc callback function, when I recieve the message WM_SETCURSOR
this code here

LRESULT CALLBACK WProc(HWND hwnd, UINT Msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)

{



	switch(Msg)		  

   {

  

//set your window''s class cursor to NULL and then handle the WM_SETCURSOR message like this example:

case WM_SETCURSOR:  

{

  // only change the cursor when it''s within the client area  

  if(LOWORD(lParam) == HTCLIENT)  

  {

   //based on some onover event for the mouse EG. over a unit or giving a path

   SetCursor(MainAppPointer);

   return TRUE;

  }

  return FALSE;//may be here should I just break at this point

}break;



   }

doing all this made my elapsed frame time jump from 2ms to 6ms is this normal,
that's 4 ms slower then rendering 11000 pollys with the default cursor on
I then tryed setting the windows class cursor when creating like this
wndclass.hCursor = MainAppPointer; this all works fine but,
it to is 4 ms slower then using just the default cursor.
Is there some thing Im missing, or that sounds about right for a 3 frame 32 X 32 animated cursor.
Im going to try a 16 X 16 cursor I may have the size to big.

the cursor is attached if anyone wants to try it. nope not permitted to up load it sorry.