Place Animated Cursors in Standard Messsageboxes

It is possible to hook messages associated with the standard message box to play around with its restricted form (e.g. change button captions, etc.) This example goes a bit further and allows the changing of the icon from one of the four available to any (static) icon. Also, a routine is included to place an animated icon (*.ani file) on a form, or anything that has a hwnd property. By finding the hwnd of the Msgbox icon in the hook procedure, the animation can be placed in the msgbox, as shown in this example.

Note: animated icons cannot usually be loaded from resource files in Windows 9.X (they can be in NT, and Windows 2000), and must be loaded from a file. When expanding this zip, tick "use folder names" so the example program can find the anis in the proper place.