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Re: controlling the hourglass cursor [message #41084 is a reply to message #41016]

Wed, 22 September 2004 09:13

James Kuyper
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Registered: March 2000

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Benjamin Hornberger wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is there a way to turn the hourglass cursor on and off manually? What I
> understand is that by widget_control, /hourglass the cursor is turned
> into an hourglass until IDL is ready to process the next event, which
> can't be controlled by the user.
>
> There is a /save_hourglass keyword for widget_event, but I don't really
> understand the documentation for that, and I never used widget_event
> directly anyway...

It's been a while since I did any widget programming, so I'm not even
sure if the following suggestion makes any sense. Could you terminate
the hourglass by sending an event to the appropriate widget with
widget_control?

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