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- From: ouster@sprite.Berkeley.EDU (John Ousterhout)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
- Subject: Re: changing cursors
- Date: 20 Aug 1992 15:32:24 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Sprite Project
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- In article <gaede.714271458@bearsan>, gaede@sda.com (Steve Gaede) writes:
- |> I need to change my cursor to an hourglass or something during
- |> an operation that takes a long time. The "options" manual page
- |> says that I can use any of the forms acceptable to TkGetCursor.
- |> The "GetCursor" manual page says that I can use any X identifier
- |> for a cursor.
- |>
- |> How can I find out what are the possible X identifiers I can use
- |> for setting a cursor in wish?
- |>
- |> Of course I'm ignorant about how to find this stuff in X, and not
- |> wanting to know *too* much about X Windows is one of my main reasons
- |> for using tk! I have the same problem-- not knowing where to find
- |> lists of X definitions-- in looking for possible key bindings, as well.
- |>
- |> Steve Gaede
- |> --
- |> Steve Gaede (gaede@sda.com)
- |> Software Design & Analysis, Inc.
- |> (303) 444-9100
-
- The X cursors are listed in Appendix B of Scheifler & Gettys ("The
- X Window System") along with pictures showing what they look like.
- The names for these cursors are also in the header file
- <X11/cursorfont.h>.
-