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Re: Wait / Busy Cursor
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Re: Wait / Busy Cursor


  • Subject: Re: Wait / Busy Cursor
  • From: Todd deGruyl <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:42:32 -0400

On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 06:45 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:


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.

I agree that _I_ (and most programmers) would understand this, but I have my doubts that the general user would see it that way.

just my $0.02
--Todd
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