Re: More on Beachballs (was Beachball cursor Help)

2010-11-10 Thread René Micout
Good ! Le 10 nov. 2010 à 08:58, Scott Rossi a écrit : Recently, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Instead of the b/w cursor busy, I'd love to use the more colorful beachball. Anyone know how that is accomplished? I thought this would be a fun graphics challenge and created a demo stack that

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread AndyP
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Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Brigham MD
I'm just fooling around with trying out an animated cursor, and I can't get it to work. I tried importing an animated GIF then setting the cursor to it, but I only get what looks like an opaque white mask of the first frame of the GIF and no animation. Do I conclude that I have to cycle

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread Devin Asay
On Nov 9, 2010, at 6:38 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: I'm just fooling around with trying out an animated cursor, and I can't get it to work. I tried importing an animated GIF then setting the cursor to it, but I only get what looks like an opaque white mask of the first frame of the GIF

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Devin Asay wrote: I'm not sure exactly what's going on behind the scenes with the 'busy' cursor. I got curious and looked into it. The cursor icons are in a stack called revCursors for Windows and *nix, and a stack called revMacCursors for Mac OS. They're just image objects. I would think

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Devin Asay wrote: On Nov 9, 2010, at 6:38 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: I'm just fooling around with trying out an animated cursor, and I can't get it to work. I tried importing an animated GIF then setting the cursor to it, but I only get what looks like an opaque

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread Devin Asay
On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Devin Asay wrote: So it seems like you could just set the cursor to the image id of your choosing, and increment it in a repeat loop, just like 'set cursor to busy'. Not tested: put

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/9/10 11:33 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: It does seem that setting a cursor to an animated GIF ought to work out of the box the way setting a button icon to an animated GIF does But if there's a workaround for cursors I'd settle for that for now. I don't think animated cursors are

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Devin Asay wrote: On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Devin Asay wrote: So it seems like you could just set the cursor to the image id of your choosing, and increment it in a repeat loop, just like 'set cursor to

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:36 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 11/9/10 11:33 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: It does seem that setting a cursor to an animated GIF ought to work out of the box the way setting a button icon to an animated GIF does But if there's a workaround for cursors I'd settle

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread FlexibleLearning
Not sure who began this thread, but I have a 'running cheetah' using sequential frames if anyone wants to play with it. Not rocket science and not a cursor, but does show how smooth the engine is! pls apply off list. Hugh Senior FLCo ___

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread Scott Morrow
Hello Joe, This isn't more colorful but Shao Sean's great ssMacExternal gives you access to built-in OSX cursors including the animated counting hand cursor. Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web http://elementarysoftware.com/ email

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread pepetoo
Thanks Scott. Joe Wilkins Scott Morrow sc...@elementarysoftware.com wrote: Hello Joe, This isn't more colorful but Shao Sean's great ssMacExternal gives you access to built-in OSX cursors including the animated counting hand cursor. Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with

More on Beachballs (was Beachball cursor Help)

2010-11-09 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Instead of the b/w cursor busy, I'd love to use the more colorful beachball. Anyone know how that is accomplished? I thought this would be a fun graphics challenge and created a demo stack that shows two methods of creating an OS X wait cursor (otherwise

Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-08 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi all, Instead of the b/w cursor busy, I'd love to use the more colorful beachball. Anyone know how that is accomplished? TIA Joe Wilkins ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-08 Thread pepetoo
Mark, I understand what you're saying, but when my application starts up it takes maybe 5 to 10 seconds to load data the user has previously saved or default data. I like to have a simple indication that something is happening. I suppose I could use the wristwatch, but nothing as complicated as

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
pepetoo wrote: Mark, I understand what you're saying, but when my application starts up it takes maybe 5 to 10 seconds to load data the user has previously saved or default data. I like to have a simple indication that something is happening. I suppose I could use the wristwatch, but

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-08 Thread Devin Asay
Joe, I'd use a spinning daisy cursor. See http://ajaxload.info/ for a slick utility that will generate a custom animated gif for you. Devin On Nov 8, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi all, Instead of the b/w cursor busy, I'd love to use the more colorful beachball. Anyone

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Hurley kindly noted a misspelling in one of my example handlers. This: on SetupProgress pMax set the startValue of sb progress to 0 set the endValue of sb progress to pMax set the thumbpos of sb progress to 0 show db progress -- typo: this is a scrollbar, not a database