Thanks Scott. that helps. On a Window's platform does set cursor to busy look like a spinning watch or is it still a MacOS 8 beach ball?
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Scott Rossi <sc...@tactilemedia.com> wrote: > I probably added to the confusion here, so I'll try to explain again. > > The *colored* beachball cursor (drawn by OS X) is the one that means an > app is not responding. This is different than the black and white busy > cursor that you can use in LiveCode, which can be used to indicate an > application is, well, busy doing something. The colored cursor is the one > you want to avoid. > > The difference between the LiveCode watch and busy cursors is the busy > cursor has multiple frames which advance each time you set the cursor. > See "cursor" in the dictionary. > > Hope this clears things up. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX/UI Design > > > > > On 10/9/13 3:27 AM, "William Humphrey" <shoreag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Can you explain what is different between setting cursor to busy instead > >of setting cursor to watch? Why does setting cursor to bust "eat cycles"? > > > >This is now a second reason not to use setting cursor to busy. The first > >being that it tells the user something is seriously wrong (I didn't know > >this one). I assume that seeing the watch just means wait a moment > >something is going on that is supposed to take time. (I see the watch > >cursor all the time when I run windows stuff). > > > >Brevity and errors in this email probably the result of being sent by a > >mobile device. > > > >> On Oct 9, 2013, at 2:50 AM, "FlexibleLearning.com" > >><ad...@flexiblelearning.com> wrote: > >> > >> Setting the cursor to busy eats cycles and adds a time-overhead. > >> > >> Personal preference is to simply 'set the cursor to watch' for any > >>actity > >> lasting up to a few seconds, or a progress bar updated every nth > >>iteration > >> (such as n mod 100 =0) for longer routines. For indeterminate activity > >> length, I use an animated gif such as a barber's pole. > >> > >> Short answer is I haven't used 'busy' in a long time. > >> > >> 2p/2c > >> > >> Hugh Senior > >> FLCo > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> use-livecode mailing list > >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > >>subscription preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > >_______________________________________________ > >use-livecode mailing list > >use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > >subscription preferences: > >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- http://www.bluewatermaritime.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
