Cursor lock

[Richmond]

On 01/18/2011 10:47 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 1/18/11 12:52 PM, Richmond wrote:
>> On 01/18/2011 08:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>> Is anyone else having trouble with the cursor not updating, or
>>> sometimes locking, in version 4.5.3? I'm noticing it particularly in
>>> the script editor, where the cursor doesn't change when you mouse over
>>> different panes or outside the window.
>>>
>>> I'm also noticing that sometimes clicking on a window doesn't activate
>>> it. The message box doesn't update to show the stack name and the
>>> window titlebar remains disabled.
>>>
>>> Just trying to figure out if it's me with a stray "lock messages"
>>> command somewhere, or if I can blame it on someone else.
>>>
>>> OS X Snow Leopard.
>>>
>>
>> Down in the undergrowth [i.e. RR 4.0 on a PPC macMini running Tiger] the
>> cursor suddenly
>> turns into what I like to call "the Clariswork clock", or, more
>> accurately " the Mac OS 7 clock"
>> and gets stuck like that.
>
> If you mean the rainbow beachball, that's a different thing. Judging 
> from the lack of response, it must be something in my setup. All I can 
> think of is a stray "lock messages" command, but those are supposed to 
> reset at the end of pending handlers and that isn't happening. But if 
> the problem were widespread I guess there'd be all kinds of reports 
> about it. It's incredibly irritating.

NO! I don't mean the rainbow beachball; I mean a black-and-white clock 
(which is one of the Livecode
cursors, come to think of it).

>
> And here I was hoping it wasn't my fault.
>