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From: joel@gould9.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Animated watch cursor.
Message-ID: <1010@gould9.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 10:22:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  4 10:22:28 1987
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In article <436@apple.UUCP>, dgold@apple.UUCP (David Goldsmith) writes:
> In article <777@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal) writes:
> 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.

More on the spinning watch cursor in Finder 5.4.

The Finder has 8 'CURS' resources, numbered 256-263. #256
is the familiar 9:00 one.  Other times seem to be
8:37, 8:45, 8:52, 9:07, 9:15, 9:22, 9:30 (or is it 8:30?)

Finder 5.4 also has a single 'acur' resource, which consists of the
following 16-bit integers:
    8
    256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263

Does this mean a future QuickDraw trap to handle 'acur' resources?

I think I like the MPW beachball better; it only requires 4 CURS
resources (0, 45, 90, 135 degrees, since a 180 degree rotation is the
same as 0) and is a lot more visible.  I don't know how they do it,
since there are no 'CURS' or 'acur' resources in MPW 1.0.1.

Maybe if CURS resources went to 64x64 I'd like the spinning
watch better.
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	Joel West			     MCI Mail: 282-8879
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