Its annoying, yes, but you actually have to force the form(s) to repaint /refresh.
There may be other ways, but back when Delphi was in version 2.0, I started getting into it... and spent several days wondering why the dumb cursor wouldn't change. I'd suggest writing the cursor change function right into your form or a form that you inherit from. That way you can change the cursor and refresh reliably without throwing "refresh()" all over your code. Add a little bit of reference counting, and you'll find it easy to have a proper cursor on the screen whenever anything is processing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Dammeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Borland's Delphi Discussion List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:21 PM Subject: Updating form with hourglass cursor. > Hi all, > > I have saved the current screen cursor and changed it to an hourglass. I > then do some extensive processing ultimately building a series of pdf > pages > stored to disk. This can take up to 15 seconds. The problem is that the > screen's cursor doesn't change to an hourglass. What do I call inside the > function to get the screen to repaint. > > I've tried self.paint and self.invalidate both which I believe just tell > windows that the next time it feels like it that the form should be > repainted and the cursor updated. > > There must be someway to tell Windows to do this. Suggestions? > > Thanks, > > John Dammeyer > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
