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From: hughes@ux.acs.umn.edu (Steve Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Abandoning your Dialog in HyperCard: how dangerous?
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Date: 28 Feb 90 21:32:36 GMT
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I wonder if if is necessary to do this whole dialogue box thing.
I've found it very useful to pop the message box on the screen
with something like "Processing Request." and then adding
dots as the operation continues (so by the end of the long
operation you have "Processing Request............").

Changing cursor to busy also implies that something is goingn
on and the machine has not hung.