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Date: Sun 21-Dec-1989 02:56:02 From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Novice AppKit/IB question about Wait Cursors I want to make a window with a "next" button; you click the button, and the window is replaced on the screen by a previously unseen window. The transition is one-way. window1 window2 +--------+ +---------------+ | | | other ^ | | BUTTON | | stuff | | (instantiated in IB) +----|---+ +-------------|-+ | | | (custom object) | | outlet transitTo-/ \->action transit: So I say - transit:sender { [[sender window] close]; [transitTo makeKeyAndOrderFront:sender]; return self; } The thing is, window2 is pretty complicated, and it takes a noticeable amount of time to appear. Looks like a good place for a wait cursor. So I bracket the transition, and a wait cursor flashes for an instant, then reverts to an arrow well before the second window appears. Then I try putting in an NXPing(); but this doesn't seem to change anything. The method now looks like: - transit:sender { [NXWait push]; [[sender window] close]; [transitTo makeKeyAndOrderFront:sender]; NXPing(); [NXWait pop]; return self; } I tried putting [transitTo flushWindow] before the NXPing(); and that didn't do it either. How do I keep the wait cursor up until the second window is flushed? Do I have to hack this into a windowDidBecomeKey delegate method? (Will that even work?) I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. -=EPS=-
Date: Sun 21-Dec-1989 14:34:14 From: dennisg@kgw2.uucp.WEC.COM (Dennis Glatting) Subject: Re: Novice AppKit/IB question about Wait Cursors you should have: {{ NXWait ] push ] set ];
Date: Sun 22-Dec-1989 23:59:21 From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: Novice AppKit/IB question about Wait Cursors In article <326@kgw2.uucp.WEC.COM> dennisg@kgw2.uucp.WEC.COM (Dennis Glatting) writes: >you should have: {{ NXWait ] push ] set ]; I think you meant [[NXWait push] set]; sorry, that doesn't work. The cursor still reverts to an arrow. (BTW, your "solution" runs counter to the documentation, but I tried it anyway.) If it's not clear what I'm trying to do, watch the Workspace cursor when you go from View>Icon to View>Browser. That's the behavior I'm looking for. -=EPS=-
Date: Sun 24-Dec-1989 04:55:28 From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: Novice AppKit/IB question about Wait Cursors I got two pieces of e-mail insisting that [NXWait push] ... [NXWait pop] "works for them." Well, it didn't work for me... until I tried ordering the main window out first. I smell a bug. - transit:sender { [[sender window] orderOut:sender]; // Why do I have to do this? [NXWait push]; [[sender window] close]; [transitTo makeKeyAndOrderFront:sender]; NXPing(); [NXWait pop]; return self; } -=EPS=-
Date: Sun 22-Dec-1989 23:59:21 From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: Novice AppKit/IB question about Wait Cursors In article <326@kgw2.uucp.WEC.COM> dennisg@kgw2.uucp.WEC.COM (Dennis Glatting) writes: >you should have: {{ NXWait ] push ] set ]; I think you meant [[NXWait push] set]; sorry, that doesn't work. The cursor still reverts to an arrow. (BTW, your "solution" runs counter to the documentation, but I tried it anyway.) If it's not clear what I'm trying to do, watch the Workspace cursor when you go from View>Icon to View>Browser. That's the behavior I'm looking for. -=EPS=-
Date: Sun 24-Dec-1989 04:55:28 From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: Novice AppKit/IB question about Wait Cursors I got two pieces of e-mail insisting that [NXWait push] ... [NXWait pop] "works for them." Well, it didn't work for me... until I tried ordering the main window out first. I smell a bug. - transit:sender { [[sender window] orderOut:sender]; // Why do I have to do this? [NXWait push]; [[sender window] close]; [transitTo makeKeyAndOrderFront:sender]; NXPing(); [NXWait pop]; return self; } -=EPS=-
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