Just a suggestion: you might consider using your own custom busy indicator. This prevents you from having to match any particular OS/version. Just so you know, the beach ball on OS X is usually associated with "non-responsive", so probably not the right message to send to your users when things are working but busy.
Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 10/8/13 10:12 AM, "william humphrey" <[email protected]> wrote: >I was hoping for something that would call the system level "busy" and >thus >would work on all platforms. If I roll a pretty rainbow one which looks >great on the present Mac OS it would fail on the different flavours of >Windows and probably the next MacOS which very likely will feature a >"flat" >beach ball. > > >On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:27 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> >> If you think your users are skittish that way, why not roll your own? A >> handful of small images that cycle around? >> >> >> >> Craig Newman >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: william humphrey <[email protected]> >> To: How to use LiveCode <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 11:19 am >> Subject: set cursor to busy >> >> >> Well I've been wondering about this feature. I have "set cursor to busy" >> whenever something takes more than a second and I see that interesting >> vintage black and white beach ball. That is fine and really a feature >> because I'm in the LiveCode developing environment so when LiveCode >>crashes >> then I see the colourful system beach ball spin and I know that is >> different than something from my code. >> >> But what about when my code is in a stand-alone? Won't users be >>confused by >> that vintage beach ball? Is there another way to say "set cursor to >>busy"? >> >> Perhaps "set new system cursor to busy" or (for old one) "set system 8 >> cursor to busy?" >> >> Any ideas? >> >> -- >> http://www.bluewatermaritime.com >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > > >-- >http://www.bluewatermaritime.com >_______________________________________________ >use-livecode mailing list >[email protected] >Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >subscription preferences: >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
