Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!ames!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!zardoz!dhw68k!thecloud From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Cursing at cursors (the resources, that is) Message-ID: <26220@dhw68k.cts.com> Date: 5 Sep 89 09:16:35 GMT References: <10222@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA) Lines: 29 In article <10222@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes: > >Now, when the Finder in supposed to display the spinning watch (which I changed >to the globe), the cursor turns into garbage (random bit patterns). The globe cursors probably have their Purgeable bits set. Go into ResEdit and do a Get Info on each, and check out the resource attributes. >Then, I went into the HyperCard application's resources (again with ResEdit) >to look for the beach ball cursors, in the hopes I could change them to >the globe, at least. They weren't there! Aren't cursors supposed to be >stored in resources? If so, why can't I find them in HyperCard? How can I >access my spinning globe from HyperCard? HyperCard is not a typical Macintosh application. Yes, cursors are supposed to be stored in resources. You can't find them in HyperCard because they aren't stored in resources. Make sense? :-) Fortunately, it's easy to have your spinning globe in HyperCard... just paste the cursors into your Home stack (or whatever stack you use them in), and add the line "set cursor " whenever you want to change the cursor. The spinning cursor will probably coincide with some sort of repeat loop in your script; just increment at each iteration. -- ========== ....... ============================================= Ken McLeod :. .: UUCP: ...{spsd,zardoz,felix}!dhw68k!thecloud ========== :::.. ..::: INTERNET: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com //// =============================================