Start WM6 busy animation

Question

Is there a way to call the WM busy animation from my program?  The icon I am referring to would be the square image with an animated, 4 colored circle in the middle.  For instance when I start my app it spins.  When I perform an action in my program I know is going to take more than 5 seconds I would like to call that animation to run.  How would this be done? 

Answer 1

 

cursor.current = cursors.waitcursor

 

 

Answer 2

That's it?  Nothing else?  How would I cancel it then?

 

Answer 3

Answered my own question by playing around with it. 

 

Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default

 

Any way to create a custom cursor that you know of?

Answer 4

Hi,

 

FroggEye wrote:

Any way to create a custom cursor that you know of?

 

Yes this is possible. For example take a look at a blog post of mine titled "Creating custom animated waited cursors" (available at http://www.christec.co.nz/blog/archives/320).

 

The key is using Platform Invoke functionality to access a native API called LoadAnimatedCursor (documented on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa921602.aspx).

 

It is however quite messy to use this API from a .NET application. Another alternative worth looking into is to create a small user control that you can dynamically hide/show as required.

 

Hope this helps,

Christopher Fairbairn

Answer 5

 

Christopher - thanks for the blog post!