EG> It works, but only for parts of me! I have an area with two listboxes,
 EG> two entryfield and two buttons. These parts have the normal
 EG> arrow-pointer, the other parts (without any resources) have the

After playing with this for some time (I was having trouble too),  I
eventually ended up with the code,  below,  in my main window proc (not in
the dialogs!),  which works for the whole program (and
windows/dialogs it creates);  all that needs to be done is for some code to
set my "busy" flag.  I am not sure if all this code is
necessary,but it works so i didn't touch it.

 MainWinProc()
 {
    static HPOINTER hp;

        [...]

        case WM_MOUSEMOVE:
            if(args->busy){
                if(!hp)
                    hp = WinQuerySysPointer(HWND_DESKTOP, SPTR_WAIT, FALSE);
                if(WinQueryPointer(HWND_DESKTOP) != hp){
                    WinSetPointer(HWND_DESKTOP, hp);
                    return (MRESULT)TRUE;
                }
                else
                    return WinDefWindowProc(hwnd, msg, mp1, mp2);
            }
            break;
        case WM_CONTROLPOINTER:
            if(args && args->busy){
                if(!hp)
                    hp = WinQuerySysPointer(HWND_DESKTOP, SPTR_WAIT, FALSE);
                return (MRESULT)hp;
            }
            else
                return WinDefWindowProc(hwnd, msg, mp1, mp2);

nb: "args" is my window/thread instance data,  kinda like global vars.

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