jg@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (J.Grant) (12/03/87)
OK - I've changed my spinning watch back into the lovely sand-timer (remember the good old days?); I've changed the CURS resource in the Finder and also in the System so that I have various quantities of sand in the top & bottom, but there is still a watch lurking! More precisely, where does the watch that says 9 o'clock live, as now I get the magic watch followed by the sand1->7, then the watch again as the cycle repeats. This only happens in the Finder, so I suspect that there must be a watch lurking elsewhere, but where? Ps. system 4.2b(5?) & Finder 6.0 (Mac 512Ke)
gandreas@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Glenn Andreas) (12/16/87)
In article <4023@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>, jg@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (J.Grant) writes: > OK - I've changed my spinning watch back into the lovely sand-timer > (remember the good old days?); I've changed the CURS resource in the > Finder and also in the System so that I have various quantities > of sand in the top & bottom, but there is still a watch lurking! > > More precisely, where does the watch that says 9 o'clock live, as > now I get the magic watch followed by the sand1->7, then the watch > again as the cycle repeats. This only happens in the Finder, so I > suspect that there must be a watch lurking elsewhere, but where? > > Ps. system 4.2b(5?) & Finder 6.0 (Mac 512Ke) To play with spinning cursors in the Finder, you need to modify TWO things. The first, obvious one is the CURS resources. If you noticed, there were only seven cursors in there (the hands at all positions but nine-o'clock). The other thing to modify is a Finder resource named "acur" (if I remember correctly). It is of the following format: ####0000 - number of cursors ####0000 - first cursor ####0000 - second cursor and so on... If you look at the resource now, it says 00080000 - eight cursors 00040000 <- watch at nine o'clock (in system file) 01010000 - position one (id 257) 01020000 - position two (id 258) and so on... The answer is to either make another cursor (in the Finder), and change to 0004 to that id, or delete the 0004 and change the 0008 to a 0007. The exact details of above may not be exactly correct (I'm doing this from memory only) but I did this several nights ago (make the watch into a grandfather clock), and it does work - no watch. Glenn Andreas =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = "I wouldn't go in there, there's a | - gandreas@ub.d.umn.edu - = = big skunk in there." | = = "That's ok, it's a Toronto skunk, | Disclaimer: Usually, I'm not = = I've got jurisdiction." | responsible for what I say = = --- Strange Brew | = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=