[Interest] Very old wait cursor on Mac OSX

[Konstantin Tokarev]

02.04.2012, 11:50, "Tony Rietwyk" <tony at rightsoft.com.au>:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> Using Qt 4.8.1 commercial, on Mac OSX 10.7.3.
>
> I'm setting the wait cursor during long running database operations using
>
>         QApplication::setOverrideCursor( QCursor(Qt::WaitCursor) )
>
> On Windows 7, it shows the correct spinning blue circle.  On OSX, it shows
> the a cursor with four quadrants - 2 white and 2 black, which is very old,
> and not anti-aliased, so it looks really ugly.

It isn't ugly, it's oldschool :)

BTW, according to [1] "most folks using Mac OS X consider the beach ball a sign of a hung/broken application"

[1] http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2004/Feb/msg01184.html

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Regards,
Konstantin