jdm@ut-ngp.UUCP (11/25/87)
This is probably a stupid question, but then if such questions were never asked, then.... How do you get the watch cursor to spin? I assumed you'd just need to call SystemTask() and it would be taken care of... I don't have IM Vol 4 yet (no flames please), and the answer's probably in there, isn't it! Well, any answer will be appreciated. Jim Meiss jdm@ngp.utexas.edu
sho@tybalt.caltech.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) (11/26/87)
In article <6920@ut-ngp.UUCP> jdm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Jim Meiss) writes: > > This is probably a stupid question, but then if such questions >were never asked, then.... > How do you get the watch cursor to spin? I assumed you'd just >need to call SystemTask() and it would be taken care of... I don't have >IM Vol 4 yet (no flames please), and the answer's probably in there, isn't it! >Well, any answer will be appreciated. If you look at the resource fork of the Finder, you will find multiple watch cursors with different positions of the hands. I guess the Finder just loads them in itself. I'm sure it wouldn't be that difficult to steal the cursors from the Finder and do it in your own application. -Sho
olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric K. Olson) (12/01/87)
In a recent article Sho Kuwamoto writes: >In article <6920@ut-ngp.UUCP> jdm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Jim Meiss) writes: >> How do you get the watch cursor to spin? I assumed you'd just >>need to call SystemTask() and it would be taken care of... I don't have >>IM Vol 4 yet (no flames please), and the answer's probably in there, isn't it! > > If you look at the resource fork of the Finder, you will find >multiple watch cursors with different positions of the hands. I guess the >Finder just loads them in itself. I'm sure it wouldn't be that difficult >to steal the cursors from the Finder and do it in your own application. You will also find a resource type "acur" which specifies the ID #s of the cursors. Format is: word number of cursors word 0 word id word 0 word id word 0 ... The default acur contains the following: 00080000 01000000 01010000 01020000 01030000 01040000 01050000 01060000 01070000 The lastest ResEdit contains a TMPL for this resource (version 1.1b3). -Eric I am not affiliated. Eric K. Olson olson@endor.harvard.edu harvard!endor!olson D0760 (Name) (ArpaNet) (UseNet) (AppleLink)