hg0g+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hunter R. Gordon) (03/09/88)
I've been having a discussion with some other people on the net about the spinning watch cursor. And while they were very infromative about what is going on, I still have a wierd problem. If anyone else out there knows what I'm doing wrong or what is going on, I would appreciate your sending me some wisdom. I've been trying to change my spinning watch cursor using ResEdit. I altered the hands on the watches in the Finder/CURS file and that worked perfectly. Now I would like to change the design altogether. I changed the seven cursors in Finder/CURS and added another so that I had eight entirely new cursors. Then I went into the Finder/acur file. This file originally looked like this: 00 08 00 00 00 04 00 00 01 01 00 00 01 02 00 00 01 03 00 00 01 04 00 00 01 05 00 00 01 06 00 00 01 07 00 00 The first number refers to how many cursors there are in the spinning watch. The other numbers tell which cursors to use. So I got rid of the 4 (00 04 00 00) and I added a 264 (01 08 00 00). I then made sure that my eight new cursors had ID numbers from 257 to 264 (they are all in Finder/CURS). After rebooting, my new spinning watch cursor became a series of dots and lines that made no sense. They didn't even change, it was just one wierd pattern. It was as if the masks were wrong for my cursors and only one of the cursors was being used. I checked the masks and used "Try Cursor" and everthing seemed fine. I have tried other things like changing the cursor in System/CURS ID 4, or putting the original 4 back in (which makes the original watch appear, but doesn't get rid of the lines) but have been entirely unsucessful at created a spinning watch that isn't based on the original watch shape. Does anyone know what is going on? Is there a watch or watch mask in the ROM (my original and disputed guess)? I would appreciate any wisdom (at hg0g+@andrew.cum.edu). My computer is a MacPlus with a 2meg RAM expansion. I use Finder 6.0, System 4.2, and Multifinder 1.0. Thanks, Hunter Gordon
wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) (03/10/88)
I changed my spinning cursor too, (to a clock that runs backwards!). First of all, use resedit to edit the acur resource. SECOND, make sure the cursors are marked unpurgeable, otherwise the memory manager purges them and the finder uses random memory for a cursor. Pierce WEtter Corrupt, adj.: In politics, holding an office of trust or profit. -------------------------------------------- wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu --------------------------------------------