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Getting the browser cursor from "wait" to "auto" without the user moving the mouse

I use this jQuery code to set the mouse pointer to its busy state (hourglass) during an Ajax call... $('body').css('cursor', 'wait'); and this corresponding code to set it back to normal... $('body').css('cursor', 'auto'); This works fine... on…
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java wait cursor display problem

I am having issues displaying a wait cursor in my application. Whenever the mouse is above a panel that defines its own cursor, the wait cursor does not appear. If a panel does not change the cursor, the wait cursor appears. I am attaching a SSCE to…
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Mac OS X: what causes the spinning beach ball?

When does OS X decide to give your app a spinning beach ball? What can you do when programming an application to avoid this?
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Busy cursors - why?

Can anyone give me a scenario where they think busy cursors are justified? I feel like they're always a bad idea from a user's perspective. Clarification: by busy cursors, I mean when the user can no longer interact with the application, they can…
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How to do 'busy' animation in Android?

Doesn't seem to be covered in the books Ive looked at.
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Make mouse with busy icon (C#)

I have an application that takes a couple of seconds to run. Is it possible to make the mouse with the busy icon while the app is processing?
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Wait cursor and disable java application

I want to have the user press a button to kick off a background thread. While the thread is processing, I want two things to happen: 1) A WAIT_CURSOR should be displayed. 2) The application should not respond to mouse events. As per the setCursor…
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C++ Win API window mouse busy on x64 platform

I created in C++ a window with the Win API. If I set the target platform to x86 in Visual Studio (2015) all works fine. But if I set the target platform to x64 all works fine too except that I get a busy cursor for the first 4-5 seconds when the…
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How do I check if Windows is currently displaying the busy cursor?

I know how to set the current cursor, but how do I check on the operating-system level if Windows is displaying the Busy cursor? Otherwise, how do I check if Windows is in the "busy" state?
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busy mouse cursor when page loading in ASP.NET

I just want to inform the user that the page is busy when it is loading or the action is being carried in the background or when the postback occurs by just changing the mouse cursor to busy. The cursor should turn to normal pointer when the page…
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Setting waitcursor on glasspane doesn't work in Dialog

I have an app that sometimes kicks off a long-running process in a background thread. If it does this from the main app, I set the wait cursor like this: oldCursor =…
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Avoid hourglass after calling CreateProcess

In my Win32 app I embed ffplay.exe for video preview. It works great but each time I start a preview the cursor becomes "busy", i.e. arrow+hourglass. I want to avoid that.
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Page not updating during busy javascript code

I have a pretty long javascript script. The problem is that in the middle of it I want to change a div's innerHtml to say "almost done please wait". I think the issue is that I call a jquery function. The in the success callback of the function I…
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Browser sometimes ignoring CSS changes (cursor style)

(This is an edited question, based on Adam H's help.) I have a complex web-app in Javascript. Some actions are lengthy, and I want to show the busy cursor during these actions. These actions take on many forms, in many places in the code. They…
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