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From: dale@bcm.tmc.edu (Dale A. Samuelsen)
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Subject: Re: Changing the cursor
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In article <7861@gollum.twg.com> sdh@vax2.twg.com ("Sari Harrison") writes:
> Is there any way to do it?
> I didn't see anything in what docs I have but I thought I would ask. Have 
> some rather time consuming XFCNs and would like the user to know there is 
> something happening via the watch cursor.

There is a way to set the cursor to something other than the finger 
cursor.  There are 8 cursor types built in to HyperCard.  The command 
works as follows:

  set cursor to arrow
  set cursor to busy  (this one shows the beach ball & when in a loop will 
rotate 45 degrees
                                  clockwise)
  set cursor to cross
  set cursor to hand
  set cursor to iBeam
  set cursor to plus
  set cursor to watch
  set cursor to none

Note that some of these will work only with HyperCard 1.2.

Hope this helps.

Dale


Dale A. Samuelsen
Baylor College of Medicine
dale@bcm.tmc.edu
--Any opinions expressed are mine alone and do not necessarily represent 
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