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From: roger@felix.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Animated watch cursor.
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Date: Mon, 2-Feb-87 12:18:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  2 12:18:47 1987
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I prefer a busy indicator that at least gives me some idea of what's 
going on.  In MPW, the busy indicator is a "spinning beach ball."  It
actually provides the user with more information than the simple fact
that the computer is off doing something.  For example, when the 
Pascal compiler is running, the ball spins one direction for syntax
checking and meta-code generation, and the other way for final code
generation.

In this case, the program has a couple of calls it can use to tell
the ball to rotate one direction or the other -- there is nothing in
the vertical retrace loop accomplishing this.


Roger