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.
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
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
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
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
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.
The
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.
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HyperActive
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
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
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:
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 b...@bluewatermaritime.com
To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Sent: Tue, Oct 8, 2013
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
beach
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
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 sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote:
Just a suggestion: you might consider using your own custom busy
indicator. This
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?
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Stephen Barncard
San
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