bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) (09/02/89)
Sorry for the cross-posting, but this article applies to all three groups.
I found several CURS (cursor) resources in the SuperCard application that
represent different positions in the rotation of Earth; when shown in sequence,
they turn the cursor into a spinning globe (instead of a spinning watch or
beach ball).
I thought this was rather neat, so I used ResEdit to copy the resources to my
Finder, renumber them, and put them in place of the Finder's spinning watch.
I made sure the resource ID's of the cursors matched their references in the
'acur' (animated cursor) resource.
Now, when the Finder in supposed to display the spinning watch (which I changed
to the globe), the cursor turns into garbage (random bit patterns).
What must I do to change the stopwatch into the globe?
Then, I went into the HyperCard application's resources (again with ResEdit)
to look for the beach ball cursors, in the hopes I could change them to
the globe, at least. They weren't there! Aren't cursors supposed to be
stored in resources? If so, why can't I find them in HyperCard? How can I
access my spinning globe from HyperCard?
It shouldn't be this difficult!
Help!
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| Systems Engineering, NASA Space Station Freedom / General Electric WP3 |thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) (09/05/89)
In article <10222@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes: > >Now, when the Finder in supposed to display the spinning watch (which I changed >to the globe), the cursor turns into garbage (random bit patterns). The globe cursors probably have their Purgeable bits set. Go into ResEdit and do a Get Info on each, and check out the resource attributes. >Then, I went into the HyperCard application's resources (again with ResEdit) >to look for the beach ball cursors, in the hopes I could change them to >the globe, at least. They weren't there! Aren't cursors supposed to be >stored in resources? If so, why can't I find them in HyperCard? How can I >access my spinning globe from HyperCard? HyperCard is not a typical Macintosh application. Yes, cursors are supposed to be stored in resources. You can't find them in HyperCard because they aren't stored in resources. Make sense? :-) Fortunately, it's easy to have your spinning globe in HyperCard... just paste the cursors into your Home stack (or whatever stack you use them in), and add the line "set cursor <resource id>" whenever you want to change the cursor. The spinning cursor will probably coincide with some sort of repeat loop in your script; just increment <resource id> at each iteration. -- ========== ....... ============================================= Ken McLeod :. .: UUCP: ...{spsd,zardoz,felix}!dhw68k!thecloud ========== :::.. ..::: INTERNET: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com //// =============================================