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Avoid hourglass after calling CreateProcess

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.

Solution

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