Re: set cursor to busy

Mike Kerner writes: > In case you didn't understand, the way you get the busy cursor (beachball) > to animate is to set it. Each time you set it, it moves. > > Thus > > repeat 100 times > set the cursor to busy > end repeat > > You can rotate it or not rotate it as much as you want. Right. T

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William, In case you didn't understand, the way you get the busy cursor (beachball) to animate is to set it. Each time you set it, it moves. Thus repeat 100 times set the cursor to busy end repeat You can rotate it or not rotate it as much as you want. On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Richard

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william humphrey wrote: I always wished that there was some LiveCode example stacks which showed proper design and procedure for different platforms. FWIW, the Human Interface Guidelines for most popular platforms are linked to in the right-hand column on this page:

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Thanks Hugh I always wished that there was some LiveCode example stacks which showed proper design and procedure for different platforms. Like you said, a documentation so that people like me wouldn't be doing it wrong for years and years. And I use Parallels and run Windows lots of time so I tho

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The 'busy' cursor is a BLACK AND WHITE spinning beachball and part of LiveCode so it is cross platform. It is hungry and eats cycles because it has to re-draw every time it changes. The COLORED spinning beachball on a Mac means the app is hanging (i.e. not a good thing). Do not use this cursor on

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On 10/9/13 8:45 AM, william humphrey wrote: Thanks Scott. that helps. On a Window's platform does set cursor to busy look like a spinning watch or is it still a MacOS 8 beach ball? It's the Windows hourglass. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software

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Thanks Scott. that helps. On a Window's platform does set cursor to busy look like a spinning watch or is it still a MacOS 8 beach ball? On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > I probably added to the confusion here, so I'll try to explain again. > > The *colored* beachball cursor

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I probably added to the confusion here, so I'll try to explain again. The *colored* beachball cursor (drawn by OS X) is the one that means an app is not responding. This is different than the black and white busy cursor that you can use in LiveCode, which can be used to indicate an application is

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Can you explain what is different between setting cursor to busy instead of setting cursor to watch? Why does setting cursor to bust "eat cycles"? This is now a second reason not to use setting cursor to busy. The first being that it tells the user something is seriously wrong (I didn't know thi

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Setting the cursor to busy eats cycles and adds a time-overhead. Personal preference is to simply 'set the cursor to watch' for any actity lasting up to a few seconds, or a progress bar updated every nth iteration (such as n mod 100 =0) for longer routines. For indeterminate activity length, I use

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On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:28 AM, william humphrey < b...@bluewatermaritime.com> wrote: > Shoot - I never considered that. I will look on the LiveCode list of > example stacks and see if anyone put one there that I can use. > Don't animated cursors still work in Livecode? -- Stephen Barncard

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Shoot - I never considered that. I will look on the LiveCode list of example stacks and see if anyone put one there that I can use. On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Just a suggestion: you might consider using your own custom busy > indicator. This prevents you from having t

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Just a suggestion: you might consider using your own custom busy indicator. This prevents you from having to match any particular OS/version. Just so you know, the beach ball on OS X is usually associated with "non-responsive", so probably not the right message to send to your users when things a

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I was hoping for something that would call the system level "busy" and thus would work on all platforms. If I roll a pretty rainbow one which looks great on the present Mac OS it would fail on the different flavours of Windows and probably the next MacOS which very likely will feature a "flat" beac

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Hi. If you think your users are skittish that way, why not roll your own? A handful of small images that cycle around? Craig Newman -Original Message- From: william humphrey To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 11:19 am Subject: set cursor to busy Well I've been wonde