Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Mike Kerner MikeKerner@... 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

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-11 Thread Mike Kerner
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

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-09 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
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

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-09 Thread William Humphrey
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 this

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-09 Thread Scott Rossi
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

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-09 Thread william humphrey
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 sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: I probably added to the confusion here, so I'll try to explain again

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
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

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-09 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
the black and white 'busy' beachball cursor, but be aware that it will slow your routine down. Hope this helps. Hugh Senior FLCo 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

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-09 Thread william humphrey
Senior FLCo 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? On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: I probably added to the confusion here

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
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:

set cursor to busy

2013-10-08 Thread william humphrey
Well I've been wondering about this feature. I have set cursor to busy whenever something takes more than a second and I see that interesting vintage black and white beach ball. That is fine and really a feature because I'm in the LiveCode developing environment so when LiveCode crashes then I see

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-08 Thread dunbarx
:19 am Subject: set cursor to busy Well I've been wondering about this feature. I have set cursor to busy whenever something takes more than a second and I see that interesting vintage black and white beach ball. That is fine and really a feature because I'm in the LiveCode developing environment

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-08 Thread william humphrey
to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 11:19 am Subject: set cursor to busy Well I've been wondering about this feature. I have set cursor to busy whenever something takes more than a second and I see that interesting vintage black and white beach ball. That is fine

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott Rossi
own? A handful of small images that cycle around? Craig Newman -Original Message- From: william humphrey b...@bluewatermaritime.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 11:19 am Subject: set cursor to busy Well I've been wondering about

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-08 Thread william humphrey
? Craig Newman -Original Message- From: william humphrey b...@bluewatermaritime.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 11:19 am Subject: set cursor to busy Well I've been wondering about this feature. I have set cursor to busy

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-08 Thread stephen barncard
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 San