Re: Spinning Watch Cursor

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From: Eric K. Olson
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1987 20:44

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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

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Subject: Re: Spinning Watch Cursor
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