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From: vito@trwspf.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Animated watch cursor.
Message-ID: <176@trwspf.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Jan-87 16:53:18 EST
Article-I.D.: trwspf.176
Posted: Tue Jan 27 16:53:18 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Jan-87 04:17:19 EST
References: <7488@decwrl.DEC.COM> <603@runx.OZ> <607@runx.OZ> <765@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Reply-To: vito@trwspf.UUCP (Herb Barad)
Organization: TRW - Data Systems Lab., Redondo Beach, CA
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Summary: I like it!

In article <765@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal) writes:
>In article <607@runx.OZ>, clubmac@runx.OZ (Sydney University Macintosh Society) writes:
>> 3) Something silly about Finder 5.4b1 is that it has an animated watchcursor,
>>    just like Servant. Is there any need for such a thing?
>If this is what I think it is, it's an AWFUL idea. The original backup
>utility for the Hyperdrive had a silly watch cursor with a hand that turned.
>They got rid of it, thank god. The only use of the thing seems to be to 
>demonstrate how clever the programmer is.

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.

Of course, I would feel differently if the Mac were multitasking...



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