isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock) (01/29/88)
A little while ago, I downloaded a Rotating Earth Cursor which consists
of about 7 CURS resources and 1 ascr (I believe) resource. This was
meant as a replacement for the spinning watch in Finder 6.0, but I was
wondering how to implement it in HyperCard. I tried installing everything
and set cursor to ID#, but it instantly switched back. Any ideas
on how this would be implemented?
Thanks in advance --
Ken
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DISCLAIMER: If people weren't so sue-happy, I wouldn't need one!moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (02/02/88)
>A little while ago, I downloaded a Rotating Earth Cursor which consists >of about 7 CURS resources and 1 ascr (I believe) resource. This was >meant as a replacement for the spinning watch in Finder 6.0, but I was >wondering how to implement it in HyperCard. I tried installing everything >and set cursor to ID#, but it instantly switched back. Any ideas >on how this would be implemented? A while ago, someone at Fluke wanted an "invisible cursor" for presentations. I think there is a better way to do this than our approach, but we created a new, "blank" cursor and installed it in either the Finder or the System, I don't remember which -- the tip-off was that there were five or six cursors there already, each having a resource number corresponding to the changeable cursors Goodman describes in the HyperCard book. Hope that helps... "For the man who has everything... Penicillin." -- F. Borquin Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, hplsla, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind... <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>
davide@cs.qmc.ac.uk (David Edmondson) (02/05/88)
HyperCard returns the cursor to what it was when it sends an idle message, the way to keep your own cursor is to make sure that a script is running all the time you want the cursor displayed. In one of my stacks I wrote a mousewithin function which checked to see that the cursor was still over the button and included a mouse down detector within a repeat while mousewithin = true loop. This kept the cursor to what I had set it to while the cursor was over the button. I hope this helps, Dave.