Re: Applescript Trivia: Black & White Pinwheel?
Re: Applescript Trivia: Black & White Pinwheel?
- Subject: Re: Applescript Trivia: Black & White Pinwheel?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:53:49 -0800
Thanks, Chris.
On Jan 18, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Christopher Nebel wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:43 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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>> This may seem like a stupid question, but…
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>> Can anybody tell me why Applescript's "hold-on-I'm-doing-something behavior" is the vintage OS 9 Black & White pinwheel rather than the default colored one in OS X?
>
> Because they mean different things. The colored cursor (officially called the "spinning wait cursor" in the HIG, unofficially known by various names, my favorite being "Spinning Technicolor Pizza of Doom") means that the application is not responding to events any more, and there's nothing you can do with it other than wait for it to come back or kill it.
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> That isn't the case for a busy applet -- it's still possible to pick menus, hit command-period, etc. -- so it uses the old-fashioned "beachball" cursor, which was invented to distinguish between working-but-still-paying-attention-to-you versus busy-and-pretty-well-wedged, which used to be represented by the wristwatch cursor.
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> --Chris Nebel
> AppleScript Engineering
>
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