Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!mimsy!mojo!stripes From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: what's most important to you for R5? Message-ID: <1990Jul6.054500.28691@eng.umd.edu> Date: 6 Jul 90 05:45:00 GMT References: <900702-140906-1044@Xerox> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 27 To: jacobi.pa@XEROX.COM Subject: Re: what's most important to you for R5? Newsgroups: comp.windows.x In-Reply-To: <900702-140906-1044@Xerox> References: Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Cc: Bcc: In article <900702-140906-1044@Xerox> you write: >8) (Getting wild here). An override children cursor command/option >(Temporarily changing the cursor in a window and its children, even if >children have their own, different cursor). In languages which have >garbage collection I would like to feed back to the user when garbage >collection happens. (I have thought about changing a window header, but >that is not where the user looks when the window appears dead for a >second). (Don't answer: when a garbage collection is going to happen you >can't issue a request anymore; it wouldn't be true in Cedar). Create a InputOnly window that covers all child windows, give it the cursor you want. Works for me. -- stripes@eng.umd.edu "Security for Unix is like Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Mutitasking for MS-DOS" "The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood "Don't try to change C into some nice, safe, portable programming language with all sharp edges removed, pick another language." - John Limpert