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In my Win32 app I embed ffplay.exe for video preview. It works great but each time I start a preview the cursor becomes "busy", i.e. arrow+hourglass. I want to avoid that.

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  • Have you considered that this is happening because the application is "busy" doing background processing? – Cody Gray - on strike Feb 09 '11 at 08:38
  • @Cody Gray: That's actually the default behavior in Windows and it's quite annoying in many scenarios including the one OP mentions. – sharptooth Feb 09 '11 at 08:50
  • @sharptooth: I think it's a perfectly sensible default behavior. Overriding it strikes me as a mistake. The hard disk light on the front of my computer blinks when I'm hitting the disk, too. But I haven't covered that up with black electrical tape. – Cody Gray - on strike Feb 09 '11 at 08:56
  • @Cody Gray: Yes, it is sensible default behavior and it makes sense most of the time, but it is *sometimes* annoying. – sharptooth Feb 09 '11 at 08:59

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Set STARTF_FORCEOFFFEEDBACK flag in dwFlags member of STARTUP_INFO struct that you pass to CreateProcess().

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