'Delphi: capture live frame of animated mouse cursor
Windows supports animated mouse cursors and I want to take a snapshot of all mouse cursor frames live, that is: I want to know exactly which frame of the cursor is being displayed to the user at the moment x (milliseconds is also important). It is essential that the frame index is extracted correctly. I use the DrawIconEx function for this purpose.
What exists to figure out exactly which frame is being displayed right now?
Solution 1:[1]
I am going to say that this is not possible.
- i've never seen anything like it
- i've never heard of anything like it
- and it sounds like a feature that would never exist
Your best alternative is to what programs like AutoCAD, Photoshop, and many games do:
Draw the cursor yourself
- hide the cursor in your form:
ShowCursor(False); - track every WM_MOUSEMOVE
- Get the cursor position:
GetCursorPos(point) - and then draw a cursor yourself
Your other alternative is to constantly replace the cursor in your app with a custom cursor - with only one image in it:
cursorHandle := LoadImage(0, IDC_WAIT, IMAGE_CURSOR, 0, 0, LR_DEFAULTSIZE or LR_SHARED);
Screen.Cursors[crWait] := cursorHandle;
Now you know exactly what image the cursor is currently showing, because you loaded it.
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