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Re: Wait cursor for short period

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From: Cody Chale
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 00:00
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If the period of time is too short, the cursor may not change at all. Try
putting a Thread.sleep in there and it should change.  Also, I've found you
often need to do a setCursor on the Frame to return back to the default
cursor even though the initial setCursor was on the glassPane...swing bugs.

-Cody

George Tryfon wrote:

> Inside in JFrame:
>
>    Component g = this.getGlassPane ();
>    g.setCursor (Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.WAIT_CURSOR));
>    g.addMouseListener (MyMouseListener);
>    g.setVisible (true);
>
>    // some job... (a simple loop)
>
>    g.removeMouseListener (MyMouseListener);
>    g.setCursor (Cursor.getDefaultCursor());
>    g.setEnabled (false);
>
> but the wait cursor is never comes out.
> What do I need for the wait cursor to appear for this short period ?
> Do I need to make some kind of "yeld()" or "repaint()" before the loop ?
>
> Thank you in advance
> George Tryfon
> george@compucon.gr
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