Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!cc.tut.fi!assari.tut.fi!n67786 From: n67786@lehtori.tut.fi (Nieminen Tero) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: These 'acur' resources, am I missing something... Message-ID: Date: 24 Dec 90 16:52:07 GMT References: <1CE00001.y0hdqe@tbomb.ice.com> <1990Dec24.040333.17271@svc.portal.com> Sender: n67786@cc.tut.fi (Nieminen Tero) Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 28 In-Reply-To: daven@svc.portal.com's message of 24 Dec 90 04:03:33 GMT In article <1990Dec24.040333.17271@svc.portal.com> daven@svc.portal.com writes: A quick check of spInsideMac and MacTechNotes stacks show no references to the 'acur' resource. I don't believe that Apple has ever documented the use of 'acur', even though the Finder uses it. Instead, I think there was an article a year or two ago in MacTutor that described the 'acur' and how to use it in your own applications. My recollection is that the 'acur' resource is used a nothing more than a convience. You still have to write the cursor animation code yourself. However, once you've done so, it allows others to change the animated cursor to one of their liking. I think the 'acur' tells you how many frames are in the animated sequence, which cursor resources are involved, and the delay required befor showing the next frame. I remember thet the cursor animation was somehow documented in the MPW manual (both Pascal and C). Theese MPW languages have routines to use these animated cursors also. I used animated "busy" cursor in one program and if I remember correctly I used the MPW Pascal library routines. As I remember it there's only one catch: They use global memory so they cannot be used in DAs. -- Tero Nieminen Tampere University of Technology n67786@cc.tut.fi Tampere, Finland, Europe