Changing The Cursor: Using Dialogs

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On 26/02/2012 at 11:50, xxxxxxxx wrote:

User Information:
Cinema 4D Version:   12
Platform:   Windows ;
Language(s) :     C++ ;

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Hey guys,

I'm having a hard time finding how to change the cursor's appearance within C++ dialog plugins.
I can get the LMB state and store the desired cursor appearance type into a BaseContainer just fine.
And when I use the LMB it does print the correct ID# for that cursor type. But I can't make the cursor's appearance change.

LONG myDialog::Message(const BaseContainer &msg, BaseContainer &result)  
{  
  BaseContainer bc;                                                  //Used to hold the type of cursor to display  
  BaseContainer state;                                               //Used to hold the state of the LMB  
  while (GetInputState(BFM_INPUT_MOUSE, BFM_INPUT_MOUSELEFT, state)) //While the LMB is held down   
  {  
   if(state.GetLong(BFM_INPUT_VALUE) == 0) break; //If the state value is 0. The LMB is no longer down..so exit the loop  
  
   LONG x = state.GetLong(BFM_INPUT_X); //Get the cursor's X screen coordinates  
   LONG y = state.GetLong(BFM_INPUT_Y); //Get the cursor's Y screen coordinates  
   //GePrint(LongToString(x));  
   //GePrint(LongToString(y));  
   
   bc.SetLong(RESULT_CURSOR,MOUSE_POINT_HAND);          //Store the cursor type into the container  
   GePrint(LongToString(bc.GetLong(RESULT_CURSOR)));    //Prints #19 when the LMB is pressed...Working good so far...  
   if (bc.GetId()==MOUSE_POINT_HAND) return TRUE;    //<---Wrong?  
  
  // ...do more stuff  
  }  
  
  return GeDialog::Message(msg,result);  
}

When using the GetCursorInfo() method. They just use SetLong(). And for some reason it works.
But since I'm using a dialog plugin. I can't use GetCursorInfo(). And using SetLong() isn't working for me.
What am I missing?

-ScottA

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On 26/02/2012 at 16:57, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Use GeShowMouse() to set the cursor type (from anywhere).

Helper

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On 26/02/2012 at 17:29, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks Robert.

-ScottA