How do I hide the mouse cursor in a Win32 console? - c++

Question

I have a function that sets a Win32 console to full screen. The problem is when it goes into full screen, it's not hiding the mouse cursor.
It doesn't seem to matter if it's in full screen or not. The mouse cursor still shows when I call ShowCursor(FALSE). How can it be hidden?
As in the docs for ShowCursor(), the cursor will hide if the function returns a value greater than 0. If it's negative, it will hide. The value is returning -2 for me, so it should hide in this case, but it is not.
bool Console::setFullScreen(const bool fullScreen)
{
HWND handle;
if (fullScreen)
{
// Hide the scrollbar
showScrollBar(false);
// Set the window style
handle = GetConsoleWindow();
LONG style = GetWindowLong(handle, GWL_STYLE);
style &= ~(WS_BORDER | WS_CAPTION | WS_THICKFRAME);
SetWindowLong(handle, GWL_STYLE, style);
// Set the window to full screen in windowed mode
ShowWindow(getHandle(), SW_MAXIMIZE);
// Hide the cursor
ShowCursor(FALSE); // Fails
}
else
{
showScrollBar(true);
// Set the window style
handle = GetConsoleWindow();
LONG style = GetWindowLong(handle, GWL_STYLE);
style |= WS_BORDER;
style |= WS_CAPTION;
style |= WS_THICKFRAME;
SetWindowLong(handle, GWL_STYLE, style);
// Set the window to full screen in windowed mode
ShowWindow(getHandle(), SW_NORMAL);
// Show the cursor
ShowCursor(TRUE);
}
return true;
}

Answer 1

I haven't tried this, but you can probably change the mouse cursor of the console window by calling GetConsoleWindow to get the HWND of the console window, then calling SetClassLong to set the cursor.
HCURSOR hNewCursor = LoadCursor(/* whatever*/);
SetClassLong(GetConsoleWindow(), GCL_HCURSOR, hNewCursor);
To make the cursor disappear, create a cursor which is entirely transparent.