use-livecode Digest, Vol 272, Issue 4

[FRED MOYER]

Thanks Peter. No, that simple "set cursor to watch; lock cursor” command doesn’t work. Well, it doesn’t work on my 2 Macs running 26.4.1 but does work on a Mac running 26.2.

I’ve asked about this and they’re not having the issue, but they too have not moved up to 26.4.1.

Any suggestions out there about updating MacOS? I always update MacOS as soon as I get the notice — thinking that maybe it includes some fix for some vulnerability to ransomware/viruses/etc. Is that a practical concern? Thanks

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> On May 5, 2026, at 12:00 PM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 4 May 2026 20:24:03 -0700
> From: Peter Bogdanoff <bogdanoff at me.com <mailto:bogdanoff at me.com>>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>
> Subject: Re: Set the cursor to...
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> Livecode’s docs don’t list compatibility with Tahoe, only up to Sonoma.
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> I’ve had success with my LC app running in Tahoe, but not authoring in Tahoe.
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> Couldn’t you:
> 	set cursor to watch
> 	lock cursor
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> 
> Peter  Bogdanoff
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>> On May 4, 2026, at 3:15 PM, FRED MOYER via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everyone:
>> 
>> I’m suddenly not able to get the cursor to change to anything other than the arrow. I just updated to Mac OS 26.4.1. Could the problem have to do with the update?
>> 
>> Is anyone else having that problem?
>> 
>> So this doesn’t work:
>> 
>> on mouseUp
>>  put 2 + the seconds into s
>>  set the cursor to watch
>>  repeat until the seconds > s
>>  end repeat
>> end mouseUp
>> 
>> I’ve tried it with LC 9.6.13, LC 10.0.3, LC 11.0.0.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Fred
>>