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- DOCUMENT:Q92520 24-SEP-1993 [W_NT]
- TITLE :Use of Startglass Cursor Under Windows NT
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
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- The information in this article applies to:
-
- - Microsoft Windows operating system version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
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- Summary:
-
- The hourglass and pointer cursors indicate the same things under
- Windows NT that they do under Windows. The hourglass indicates that an
- application is busy and that the user cannot perform any new action
- with that application. However, Windows NT allows the user to switch
- to a new application, even when an application is showing an
- hourglass. The pointer indicates that the application is ready for
- user commands.
-
- There is also a new cursor introduced in the Windows NT operating
- system: an hourglass plus a pointer (referred to as a "startglass").
- It indicates that the system has received an application start request
- and is processing it, but that the user can still perform other mouse
- commands (such as starting another application or switching to another
- window).
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- More Information:
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- The startglass was added so that if an application took several
- seconds to display a window, the user would not think that the
- application had not started, and then try to start another instance.
-
- Note that the cursor is not available as a standard cursor, nor does
- it have an identifier in the header files for use by application
- programmers.
-
- Additional reference words: win32 hour glass howto
- KBCategory:
- KBSubCategory: WINNT HOWTO
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