Can anyone give me a scenario where they think busy cursors are justified? I feel like they're always a bad idea from a user's perspective. Clarification: by busy cursors, I mean when the user can no longer interact with the application, they can only move their hourglass mouse pointer around and whistle a tune. ...
When does OS X decide to give your app a spinning beach ball? What can you do when programming an application to avoid this? ...
Hi all, I have an XULRunner based application in which I need to (a) ask for user input using a custom dialog, and when the user clicks "OK", (b) perform the requested operation. This operation is an asynchronous operation on a server, and can take some time, so I would like to show a "loading" dialog or some form of busy indicator. I h...
Hi, I have a pretty long javascript script. The problem is that in the middle of it I want to change a div's innerHtml to say "almost done please wait". I think the issue is that I call a jquery function. The in the success callback of the function I call another function which is where I am trying to update the page from. If I set a br...
I use this jQuery code to set the mouse pointer to its busy state (hourglass) during an Ajax call... $('body').css('cursor', 'wait'); and this corresponding code to set it back to normal... $('body').css('cursor', 'auto'); This works fine... on some browsers. On Firefox and IE, as soon as I execute the command, the mouse cursor ch...
I have android application with ListView, where each row has own "refresh" button. Refreshing content is based on asynchronous http call, so until it completes (or timeout) I'd like to display some kind of graphical "busy" marker in each affected (clicked) row. What is best practice to do it? I see animated gifs - i.e. ones with rotating...
Doesn't seem to be covered in the books Ive looked at. ...
I have an application that takes a couple of seconds to run. Is it possible to make the mouse with the busy icon while the app is processing? ...
I'm using JSP & Struts2 for development. When I login, I call an action, which inturn takes some time to load the data on the page. While the data is getting loaded, I want to show a busy cursor and once the page is completely loaded, remove off that. Also I'm using jQuery to a large extent. Is there a way to achieve this? ...
Hi, i am using a tree with an array collection, i have tried to run busy cursor on expandItem but now i dont know were to stop it when the tree finishes loading children, ...