[Interest] Very old wait cursor on Mac OSX

[Konstantin Tokarev]

02.04.2012, 12:21, "Dair Grant" <dair at refnum.com>:
> On 2 Apr 2012, at 08:50, Tony Rietwyk wrote:
>
>>  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.  I expect to see the spinning
>>  rainbow cursor, or possibly the circle of short lines that appears when
>>  logging in.
>
> Unfortunately Cocoa doesn't provide a built-in "wait" cursor; however the spinning B&W quadrant is the historical "I'm busy" cursor so is arguably the correct one to use.
>
> Mac OS X's Java implementation has an updated version of that cursor but unfortunately it's not available to non-Java apps:
>
>     <http://www.flickr.com/photos/raza/2721851036/>

BTW, similar cursor is present in WebKit's "Resources" directory (see attachement).


-- 
Regards,
Konstantin
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