Re: Wait / Busy Cursor
Re: Wait / Busy Cursor
- Subject: Re: Wait / Busy Cursor
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:45:29 -0500
On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 02:48 PM, Ondra Cada wrote:
On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 08:04 , rsharp wrote:
the short answer is: you don't. The wait cursor is controlled by the
Window Server and appears when you application doesn't respond to
events
for a given amount of time.
Agreed. But, it would be nice to be able to programatically change the
cursor to a "wait" cursor just as you can do in Carbon.
But why, on earth?
Either the application does response to events, in which case you don't
want the busy cursor (at least I think so!). Or it does not, in which
case you get it automatically.
If you set your own busy cursor (the wristwatch, for example), the user
knows that the app is just busy processing something, and that it hasn't
crashed. If you just let the Window Server put up the spinning rainbow
cursor, it looks like the app crashed.
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