title: Windows 7 and Windows 8 progress "ring" controls
body: <p>How can I create a native "progress ring" control using the WinApi?</p>
  
  <p>I can't find anything on MSDN apart from the "ProgressRing" class for Windows 8 modern UI apps. </p>
  
  <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.ui.xaml.controls.progressring" rel="nofollow">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.ui.xaml.controls.progressring</a></p>
  
  <p>I want to be able to use this from a pure win32 app on Windows 8 and have it draw the "spinning balls". But on Windows 7 it should be the "blue circle". I know for Windows 7 that the blue icon is the default mouse busy cursor which could be rendered. For Windows 8 I can't find the actual resource that it uses.</p>
  
  <p>Update: I want to paint this onto a window rather than set it as the mouse cursor, I should have clarified this - even so the busy cursor on Windows 8 is not the "spinning balls" animation.</p>