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rocky_raher
02-17-2006, 04:00 PM
I am developing an application that can take a minute or so reading a file. During this time, I want to display the little circle that indicates "CPU busy," the PPC equivalent of the hourglass icon on Windows desktop. IIRC, that can be created and stopped programmatically. Unfortunately, I cannot look it up in the Help menu because I don't know what it is called. I searched the index for "Hourglass" and "spinning circle thingy" without success.

Sven Johannsen
02-17-2006, 04:36 PM
Well what I call it when I see it certainly couldn't be written here. Probably wouldn't work in a help search either.

GSmith
02-17-2006, 06:27 PM
It is called the Cursor. In C#, the code to change it is:

Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor ;

Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default ;

rocky_raher
02-17-2006, 06:42 PM
Thank you, GSmith!

I suspected that it would either have some obscure name (like "DynamicWaitIndicator" or somesuch), or be something that, in hindsight, should have been obvious. Still, I'd have been lost if I hadn't asked. Thanks again!