John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| None of the core uses are necessary at all. I consider our use of the
| watch to be a UI bug - the watch cursor means "processing", NOT "waiting
| for user input" (alerts).
|
| The only cases we want the watch are when we're latexing etc. and even
| then it is feedback only NOT a correctness thing, and we do that
| already just fine by using the BufferView methods.
|
| So we should :
|
| a) remove most of the remaining uses of prohibitInput()
| b) rename it to indicate, e.g. showBusyCursor()
|
| I suspect that the deactivation of the workarea via the XFormsView means
| that the enter/leave events are not processed, so we are OK.
|
| I will post a demonstration patch, I think.
pI and aI stay as is now.
Open up this issue for 1.4.x
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Lgb
