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From: dennisg@fritz.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Animated watch cursor.
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Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 15:58:30 EST
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<...some discussion about the animated watch cursor in new Finder...>

In article <176@trwspf.UUCP> vito@trwspf.UUCP (Herb Barad) writes:
>Actually, I think it is a good idea.  I lot of times a program hangs (due
>to various reasons), it happens with when the watch cursor is up.  If the
>program has really hung, you can't really tell because you are suppose to
>wait.  Only after an unreasonable amount of time you begin to think, "Hey
>there is something wrong here."  I have had the Finder hang (rarely) when
>doing certain operations and I would rather know that when it tells me
>to wait, that it is actually doing something and not hanging.

Using the animated watch cursor as an "I am alive" indicator sounds good if
it's implemented "right".

If the spinning hands are hooked into something like the video retrace
interrupt, the hands might keep on spinning even though the Finder is belly-up.
In such a case, the animation is just ginger-bread... and not worth the space
on my system disk.

<disclaimer:  I don't have this version of the Finder yet, and I sure don't
know how it was implemented!>