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From: david@starsoft.hou.tx.us (Dave Lowrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: "Busy" pointer
Message-ID: <david.1247@starsoft.hou.tx.us>
Date: 28 Jun 91 14:35:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Organization: Starbound Software Group
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In article <22747@cbmvax.commodore.com> carolyn@cbmvax.commodore.com (Carolyn Scheppner - CATS) writes:
>
> In article <1991Jun26.030833.9974@crash.cts.com> bruceg@crash.cts.com (Bruce Geerdes) writes:
> >What's the easiest way to get the "busy" pointer to come up?  The RKM's
> >show one how to define his own alternate pointer, but I'd like to use the
> >standard one.  I'm assuming it's someone in ROM?
>
> Fish Disk 107 contains RJ's Programmer's Suite which includes C source
> image data for a variety of Wait pointers including the 1.3 ZZZ cloud.
>
> Also includes a canned function for displaying them - but all you
> really need is SetPointer and ClearPointer (Intuition functions)

Also, the new "AMIGA User Interface Style Guide" gives you a bitmap
drawing of the 2.0 busy pointer (the clock), so you can copy it
for your own programs.

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