"New" busy cursor in the Finder
"New" busy cursor in the Finder
- Subject: "New" busy cursor in the Finder
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:03:39 -0500
I noticed recently that the Finder has a "new" very nice looking animated busy cursor, which you can see here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45534011/BusyCursor.png
It should seem very familiar to Windows users who have had the "pointer + hourglass" cursor for a long time. The meaning is... I am working on what you asked me to do, things may take a moment but I haven't actually frozen (unlike the spinning rainbow pizza of doom). In the picture "Open With" is going to take a while to recalculate as Spotlight was busy indexing at that moment.
I put the "new" in inverted commas because Apple actually implemented this cursor for Java apps a long time ago. This is the first time I've seen it in a fully native app like the Finder. There's an NSCursor category defined here:
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.7.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Frameworks/JavaRuntimeSupport.framework/Headers/JRSCursor.h
@interface NSCursor (JavaRuntimeSupport)
+ (NSCursor *) javaBusyButClickableCursor;
This will show that cursor successfully, but it obviously requires linking to JavaRuntimeSupport.framework, which I doubt the Finder does?
AndyT (lordpixel - the cat who walks through walls)
A little bigger on the inside
(see you later space cowboy, you can't take the sky from me)
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