Re: Wait / Busy Cursor
Re: Wait / Busy Cursor
- Subject: Re: Wait / Busy Cursor
- From: Gokul Hegde <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:06:15 +0530
Hi Everybody on this thread
In my case, I do need a wait cursor here if possible. Let me clarify on my
requirements. I have two NSTableViews and two buttons each to load one of
the views. The contents of the view are got after doing some processing. Pl.
note that the processing is done in separate threads.
Here when contents of one view are being loaded, the other view is
operational. So I cannot use a progress window poping up as it will applly
for the whole application. I will have to only use inditerminate prograss
bars as the computation is not definitive. Placing the inditerminate
progress bars along for each view does not sound appealing.
So what I wanted to do is to display a busy cursor only when user moves
mouse over the view being loaded. And to have the arrow cursor at all other
positions. (Like the IBeamCursor being displayed only when moved over the
editable views and arrow at all other places.)
(It appears to me that it is a missing feature of providing 'arrowCursor'
and 'IBeamCursor' class methods but 'not' providing a 'busyCursor' class
method in NSCursor).
After going through all this discussions in this thread, I feel that I might
have to go for a 'self made' cursor and use it instead of using the default
busy cursor.
Or do I have any other options?
With regards
Gokul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd deGruyl" <email@hidden>
To: "Charles Srstka" <email@hidden>
Cc: "Ondra Cada" <email@hidden>; "rsharp" <email@hidden>;
<email@hidden>; "Gokul Hegde" <email@hidden>; "Scott
Tooker" <email@hidden>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 6:12 AM
Subject: Re: Wait / Busy Cursor
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On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 06:45 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:
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> If you set your own busy cursor (the wristwatch, for example), the user
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> knows that the app is just busy processing something, and that it
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> hasn't crashed. If you just let the Window Server put up the spinning
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> rainbow cursor, it looks like the app crashed.
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I agree that _I_ (and most programmers) would understand this, but I
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have my doubts that the general user would see it that way.
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just my $0.02
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--Todd
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Robosoft Technologies, Mangalore, India
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