[Gambas-user] Displaying Mouse.Wait while running a SHELL Command

[Benoît Minisini]

> Hi,
> 
> Heres how i "fixed" it, hope it is the right way to display a "wait" cursor
> while a process executes.
> 
> -------------------------
> FMain.Mouse = Mouse.Wait
> WAIT
> Application.Busy = 1
> 
> SHELL "sha512sum lenny.iso" TO actualSUM
> 
> Application.Busy = 0
> FMain.Mouse = Mouse.Default
> -------------------------
> 
> I read "If you call WAIT from an event handler, you may create infinite
> recursions, and then stack overflows" from the Docs, i hope it wouldn't be
> an issue in this case (i.e., if i were to use WAIT for the click event of
> a Button).
> 
> Regards,
> Vikram
> 

Setting FMain.Mouse and calling WAIT is useless. Application.Busy should 
already set the busy cursor for every widget in the application. Otherwise 
this is a bug.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini