[ANN] #011 How-To stack: Managing user waiting

[Alejandro Tejada]

on Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:32:56 -0300
Eric Chatonet wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> #011 Managing user waiting (specially dedicated to beginners)
> Shows the different ways of indicating to the user that he has to wait 
> a moment: static cursors, animated cursors, animated gifs, progression 
> bars and how to use them.


Hi Eric,

You are creating a great series of small "How-To" for this development platform.!!!

This is a great service for beginners and a nice organized reference for experienced

developers. A welcome addition would be to include references to similar works made

by other developers. In this way, readers can keep looking for more examples and 

code in the topics of their interest.

By the way, i noticed that you mentioned that animated gif could not be resized.

Here is one way to do it:

From:

http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/metacard/2003-February/004158.html

1) In the message box write:
Create image

This empty image will appear in the
center of the topstack.

2)Resize this empty image to the
size that you want the animated gif
to have and set the locklocation
of it to true.

3)Set the filename of the image to
the name of your animated gif.

Voila! You have an animated gif
resized.

Remember that you could move
this "locked" image to any place
that you want, for example,
put this code in the script
of the image:

on mouseup
set the cursor to none
repeat until the mouseclick()
-- set the loc of me to the mouseloc
grab me
end repeat
set the cursor to hand
end mouseup

Of course, you could use
the keyboard to move the image
or move it to the points of
a polygon graphic.


al



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