Showing cursor in background console window

Question

I have a little Windows API task I can't rule out.

I need to make cursor visible in the background console window. I tried using GetConsoleCursorInfo / SetConsoleCursorInfo but bVisible in CONSOLE_CURSOR_INFO was already true.

How can do it?

Thanks for your answers.

Answer 1

The cursor is only visible when the console window is the foreground window.

I suppose you could check if GetConsoleWindow() != GetForegroundWindow() with a timer and change the text and/or background color with WriteConsoleOutputAttribute when you are not in the foreground if you need some type of visual indicator.