C / C++ / MFC

// Load a cursor of the type that should be checked.
// The clue: The handle to the cursor is unique, so we can use it for comparison.
HCURSOR hHelpCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_HELP);
 
// Use GetCursorInfo() to get information about the current (global) cursor.
CURSORINFO ci;
ci.cbSize = sizeof(ci);
if(GetCursorInfo(&ci))
{
  if(ci.hCursor == hHelpCursor)
    cout << "Context help cursor active!" << endl;
}

khb wrote:

Any hints for improvement are welcome!

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave." - Native American Proverb

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave." - Native American Proverb

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave." - Native American Proverb

waldermort wrote:

But you have yet to suggest an answer yourself.

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave." - Native American Proverb

waldermort wrote:

Though might I say, it has taken you two replies to say that those of us who are trying to help the OP are wrong. But you have yet to suggest an answer yourself.

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave." - Native American Proverb