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- From: chuck@gte.com (Chuck Hoffman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Animated Cursor
- Message-ID: <chuck-090992085227@choffman.gte.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 12:53:01 GMT
- References: <chuck-040992120527@choffman.gte.com> <1992Sep4.175646.10103@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep4.175646.10103@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
- jbush@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (J Eric Bush) wrote:
- >
- > To do an animated cursor the way the Finder does it, you have a acur resource
- > with the numbers of the CURS icons in the rotation. Make a copy of your finder
- > and save it to disk. Look at the acur and CURS resource with ResEdit.
- >
- > Then, inyour application, you just keep a variable with the current cursor,
- > add one to it, and then do a SetCursor procedure/function.
-
- Thanks, Eric. Sometimes when I look for something complicated, I miss the
- simple.
-
- Chuck Hoffman
- chuck@gte.com
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