Re: Newbie - Cursor question
Re: Newbie - Cursor question
- Subject: Re: Newbie - Cursor question
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:14:38 -0800
On Feb 22, 2005, at 5:07 PM, Jeff Brown wrote:
How do I change the cursor to the colourful spinning
ball for when the user is waiting for background
processing to finish. I noticed that NSCursor doesn't
seem to have that option.
In short, you don't. Or, at least, you don't unless you want to have a
miserable user experience.
The spinning busy pizza is reserved for applications that have stopped
responding to events. Not responding to user events is bad;
indicative that the app is no longer playing the subservient role to
the user's every whim as it should.
If your app really should be unresponsive in this situation, then popup
a modal panel or sheet, stick a progress indicator in it -- hopefully
deterministic -- and at least offer the user a Cancel button.
b.bum
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