GetCursorType>resultvar

[jpuziano]

Hi Marcus,

Thanks for that link... I notice it says...

• GetCursor Function
  The GetCursor function retrieves a handle to the current cursor.

From what I had seen above, I had thought the number coming back was an actual "Cursor Type"... but now I see its "a handle to the current cursor". I suppose for a regular app, a standard set of "system cursors" must exist and there is a different handle to each one of them. So with regular apps, the GetCursor LinFunc> call is returning these different handles and that's enough to tell us the cursor has changed.

Since this isn't working for us in IE (the number coming back is always the same) I assume that IE must define/use its own cursor/icon resource and that handle never changes.

Perhaps the following Win32 API function would allow us to get the required info...

• GetCursorInfo Function
  The GetCursorInfo function retrieves information about the global cursor.
  
  Syntax
  
  BOOL GetCursorInfo( PCURSORINFO pci
  );

Then again, perhaps LibFunc (in its current form) will not work with this function because its a Boolean?

Ahh well, if anyone has more info on this or knows of a DLL that can pull the current cursor type being used inside a browser (IE, Firefox, etc.), please share... and thanks in advance.

[Marcus Tettmar]

Handles are assigned at run time. Just like window handles. The handle itself won't tell you anything about a cursor - it just identifies a cursor.

Booleans are actually integers - 1 or 0. So LibFunc can return booleans. But the pointer to the cursor info is another matter.

[Snickers]

What is the reason why a screenshot does not capture a cursor?

If we could possibly capture a screenshot of just the cursor, the screenshot of the cursor could be used to assign each cursortype to a variable. Then using imagerecognition we could compare

[Me_again]

Since this isn't working for us in IE (the number coming back is always the same) I assume that IE must define/use its own cursor/icon resource and that handle never changes.

It's much more complex (worse) than you suggest, the cursor type can be defined in the code in the viewed webpage, see here for some examples. Add in the possibility of the user having a cutsie cursor utility like the dreaded comet cursor and this whole idea looks to have a poor chance of success.

[jpuziano]

Hi Me_again,

Thanks for that useful link... but barring a custom cursor on the odd web page, I think the great majority of web pages will just be using one or more of the "predefined cursor types under CSS2 specification" as the info at the link you provided says.

Again, I don't know how hard this would be... but if a DDL can be created to let us know when a web page in IE has finished loading, then I'm pretty sure one could be created to tell us which of the "predefined cursor types" is currently being used within a web page in IE.

Then again, Snickers asked... "What is the reason why a screenshot does not capture a cursor?

I know of image capture programs that capture the cursor right along with the image... so obviously its possible. If the ScreenCapture> command had an option to let it capture the mouse pointer as part of the captured image... then maybe this could be tackled with image recognition.

I can see that being useful beyond webpages too... just for the ability to capture the mouse pointer in the image, what form it took (pointer, hand, crosshair, etc.), where it was on the screen when the ScreenCapture was taken, etc. Any possibility of adding that Marcus?

[Marcus Tettmar]

Again, I don't know how hard this would be... but if a DDL can be created to let us know when a web page in IE has finished loading, then I'm pretty sure one could be created to tell us which of the "predefined cursor types" is currently being used within a web page in IE.

LOL! IE has an ActiveX interface. One of it's most basic properties is one called Busy. So all one needs to do is query that property. You can do it yourself in a few lines of simple VBScript. See:
http://www.mjtnet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1511

Anyone can create a DLL for use with Macro Scheduler. So if you know how to achieve something which will benefit you then go right ahead.