Re: Cursor control II
Re: Cursor control II
- Subject: Re: Cursor control II
- From: Greg Strange <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 09:31:43 -0500
on 6/1/01 7:08 AM, JollyRoger at email@hidden wrote:
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on 5/31/2001 1:31 PM, Robert Poland at email@hidden wrote:
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> Found "Set Cursor" in Jon's Commands. However it's almost useless
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> because of the fact that AppleScript does parallel processing instead
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> of serial. Is there a solution?
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> Example:
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> set cursor to busy cursor
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> --process of random time/length
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> set cursor to arrow cursor
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> Change to busy cursor and back occurs immediately regardless of time
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> it takes to process.
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What exactly is the "process of random time/length"?
Maybe I am way off base here but if you wantt he cursor to display the
spinning beach ball when something is going on that the script is doing
itself, just bring the script to front. The script will force the cursor to
change to reflect the busy state. If you are trying to change the cursor
while another application does something, why would you do that? Maybe you
want to try making a progress bar with Appearance OSAX or Dialog Director?
Also, have you tried putting it all into a considering application responses
block?
Just my $0.02
Greg Strange