Cursor issues

Scott Slaugh xslaugh at gmail.com
Wed May 11 16:20:05 EDT 2005


I didn't see any bug reports related to the defaultCursor property when I 
searched BugZilla. Do you have a bug number I could look at, or should I 
just post one myself?

Scott Slaugh

On 5/11/05, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 
> On 5/11/05 1:26 PM, Scott Slaugh wrote:
> 
> > In my ongoing quest to convert some HyperCard stacks, I have run into a 
> few
> > more problems. One has to do with the defaultCursor. In the openstack
> > handler, I have been setting the defaultCursor to an image that is 
> located
> > on one of the cards of the stack. However, as the program runs, the 
> cursor
> > often gets corrupted. It will change to a image other than the one I 
> set.
> > Has anyone run into this, and if so, have you been able to work around 
> it?
> > This may be related to another cursor issue we are having. Often when we 
> set
> > the cursor to watch, when the handler completes it does not reset the
> > cursor. It remains a watch, leaving people thinking the program has 
> frozen.
> > Any ideas out there for this one?
> 
> I think we've all seen both of these bugs, which were somehow introduced
> in the last version release. There are bug reports on both of them, I
> believe. It isn't just related to custom cursors, the behavior happens
> with the regular cursors in the IDE too. I haven't found a reliable way
> around the corrupted cursor problem yet. For the hung "watch" image, you
> can either just set your cursor back at the end of the handler, or use
> "reset cursors" which seems to clear it in the IDE when I do it from the
> message box.
> 
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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