Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!endor!olson From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric K. Olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Spinning Watch Cursor Message-ID: <3432@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 15:44:27 EST Article-I.D.: husc6.3432 Posted: Tue Dec 1 15:44:27 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 21:19:51 EST References: <6920@ut-ngp.UUCP> <4677@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: olson@endor.UUCP (Eric K. Olson) Organization: Lexington Software Design Lines: 38 Keywords: How to do it? In a recent article Sho Kuwamoto writes: >In article <6920@ut-ngp.UUCP> jdm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Jim Meiss) writes: >> How do you get the watch cursor to spin? I assumed you'd just >>need to call SystemTask() and it would be taken care of... I don't have >>IM Vol 4 yet (no flames please), and the answer's probably in there, isn't it! > > If you look at the resource fork of the Finder, you will find >multiple watch cursors with different positions of the hands. I guess the >Finder just loads them in itself. I'm sure it wouldn't be that difficult >to steal the cursors from the Finder and do it in your own application. You will also find a resource type "acur" which specifies the ID #s of the cursors. Format is: word number of cursors word 0 word id word 0 word id word 0 ... The default acur contains the following: 00080000 01000000 01010000 01020000 01030000 01040000 01050000 01060000 01070000 The lastest ResEdit contains a TMPL for this resource (version 1.1b3). -Eric I am not affiliated. Eric K. Olson olson@endor.harvard.edu harvard!endor!olson D0760 (Name) (ArpaNet) (UseNet) (AppleLink)