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From: dgold@apple.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Animated watch cursor.
Message-ID: <436@apple.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Feb-87 18:36:04 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  2 18:36:04 1987
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Reply-To: dgold@apple.UUCP (David Goldsmith)
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In article <777@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal) writes:
>I presume these animated watch cursors are implemented by installing a
>vertical retrace interrupt routine. If so, they aren't a very reliable
>guide to whether the application as a whole is still operating. My guess
>is that the watch cursor will keep turning as long as you can move the
>mouse.
Finder 5.4 will not turn the hands on the animated watch cursor unless it is
actually making progress doing something.  I believe the cursor animation is
performed by repeated calls to SetCursor, not by a VBL task.


-- 
David Goldsmith
Apple Computer, Inc.
MacApp Group

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