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Re: Preventing beach balls
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Re: Preventing beach balls


  • Subject: Re: Preventing beach balls
  • From: Stefan Werner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:22:54 +0100


On Feb 19, 2007, at 10:40 PM, Uli Kusterer wrote:

Am 19.02.2007 um 04:52 schrieb Dave Sopchak:
I can't help but think this whole thread would be unnecessary if Apple had simply decided to use an updated watch cursor in OS X, rather than the spinning beach ball. Ugh.

Whenever your app doesn't process events for a while, you get the beach ball. That's either a sign your app has hung, or it's not been engineered the way Apple wants you. Had they used the watch cursor, you would see that cursor whenever an app hangs. There's not much difference in what image they use.

There's one slight difference:

"You can tell the busy cursor not to stay animated if your application stops responding. This ensures that the busy cursor won't spin forever if your application never returns from a task."

source: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/MacAppProgGuide/ MacAppProgGuide-114.html#HEADING114-76

Stefan
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