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Getting the browser cursor from "wait" to "auto" without the user moving the mouse

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...

Can CSS handle this hourglass-like situation ?

I am having a tough time thinking a solution to the following problem. Let me illustrate it first Situation I have 26 items (in this example, in general the number is not known..) but only 12 can be visible at one time.. I also have some navigation elements (the green boxes) Width of purple and green boxes is fixed but height of purpl...

android hourglass

How can I programmatically display an hourglass in an Android application ? ...

Outlook VBA Macro: Best way to indicate 'please wait'...

What's the best practice for indicating to the user that a Macro is running within Outlook ? The macro can take around 1-30 seconds to complete. I want to avoid a modal 'msgbox' popping up before the macro is run, as this can be annoying. I would rather avoid the hourglass cursor if possible, and wondered if there was a better way. Is...

Why doesn't my cursor change to an Hourglass in my FindDialog in Delphi?

I am simply opening my FindDialog with: FindDialog.Execute; In my FindDialog.OnFind event, I want to change the cursor to an hourglass for searches through large files, which may take a few seconds. So in the OnFind event I do this: Screen.Cursor := crHourglass; (code that searches for the text and displays it) ... Screen.Cursor := c...

Avoid hourglass mouse cursor when calling a web-service?

I don't know if this is a general web-services issue or just my specific scenario, which is a WPF application with a DispatcherTimer calling a web-service method. Whenever the timer is called, the mouse cursor automatically changes to an hourglass cursor. The processing of the call is very short and happens every 3 seconds, so the user ...

Outlook 2007 : VBA Macro: GUI update (HourGlass for Mouse Pointer) not happening?

I have a simple VBA program to download attachments from a Mail Item; I'm launching a Macro (that is a 'sub' in a Module), which does a 'Form.Show' to launch a User Form. There is a button on the User Form to kick of the actual download - the download sub is located back in the Module code, not the form code. Here's the code I'm using f...

Hourglass problem in a WinForm application

Hello everybody, In my program with a UI in WinForm. I set the cursor to a hourglass just before to launch a method in ThreadPool. My code in UI thread to set the cursor looks like this : Application.UseWaitCursor = true; When the method is finished, i go back to the UI Thread to set the cursor to the normal case. Application.UseWa...