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Can anyone help with some code to make the SplashImage follow the mouse pointer while the image is visible?

I have a script that runs database queries in the background via vbs. While the query runs, I'd like to have an hourglass image displayed next to the mouse pointer. Right now the image just displays by default on the center of the screen.

I guess I could also try to change the regular mouse pointer to the waiting icon, but the threads I have read about this require DLL calls and may possibly screw with the pointer to the point that a reboot is required to straighten it out. So I'd like to avoid this. TIA!!!

where does that image come from?

I think that if you make a splash image, even if it does follow the mouse around, it would not delete/remove the one that is forced there from the database itself. It would be its own splash image created by AHK moving around, and not a replacement to existing one generated by a different application.

This may not be 100% correct though, but reading the documentation it seems that way.

I'll try the code that leef_me provided. THANKS!

As to where the image is coming from, it's from AHK. AHK creates the splashimage, runwaits the vbscript that queries the database, then reads the file generated by the vbscript before killing the splashimage.