After I could not locate a method for displaying animated cursors from a resource,
I found a way myself.
Essentially (with error checking removed), here’s the code path.
HCURSOR LoadAnimatedCursor(UINT nID { HINSTANCE hInst=AfxGetInstanceHandle(); HRSRC hRes=FindResource(hInst,MAKEINTRESOURCE(nID),"ANICURSORS"); DWORD dwSize=SizeofResource(hInst,hRes); HGLOBAL hGlob=LoadResource(hInst,hRes); LPBYTE pBytes=(LPBYTE)LockResource(hGlob); return (HCURSOR)CreateIconFromResource(pBytes,dwSize,FALSE,0x00030000); }
To import an .ANI file to the resource script:
- Insert->Resource->Import: Load the .ANI file
- Select the new resource into a user defined type named: ANICURSORS
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