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 known as "spinning beachball", "pizza of death", "pinwheel of death", etc). The first option is a windowShape hack which is quite smooth looking (here) and could work in any recent version of LiveCode. The second option uses the enhanced cursor property only found in LiveCode 4.5 and later. As explained in the demo stack, it appears that repeatedly setting a cursor to the ID of an image results in a cursor that flashes -- seems like something that needs to be fixed/cached at the engine level. Option 1 has its drawbacks as well (see the stack info). Anyway, the stack might be useful in other areas, and you can get it by executing the following in your Rev message box (note the following is not a Web link, watch line wrap): go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/site_files/downloads/custom_busy_cursor.rev" (Not tested in Windows because Windows has its own objects-of-death.) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution