Waiting cursor problem

[Piotr Nowicki]

Howdy Ranchers!

One more question about this f....riggin' GUI part of the task.

I'm trying to change the cursor to indicate that some computations are made in the background. I do this with:

getRootPane().setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.WAIT_CURSOR));

I am executing this code when user hits 'close' button (action listener) or closes the window (window adapter). The point is that sometimes it shows waiting icon, and sometimes doesn't.

I don't have a clue why this happens - it is just a random - or more likely - once it works and then 4 times it doesn't...

Did anyone have some problem like that?

Cheers!

[Roel De Nijs]

Hi Pedro,

I find it quiet amusing to see you are about the GUI part of the assignment, but you are doing a whole lot extras in the GUI which are not intended, giving you a lot more trouble than you would have had if you kept it as simple as possible.

My GUI does not have a progressbar, cursor is not switching,... So my advice simply would be: if it does not work or you have to spend too much time, just do NOT do it If you want to go through with fancing your GUI, I think you should ask your questions in the dedicated Swing forum instead of this one, because chances to get a useful answer are a whole lot higher, certainly if you try to do things which are not required at all.

Kind regards,
Roel

[Piotr Nowicki]

I've decided not to use the waiting cursor at all - the shutdown operation is not so time consuming to be honored with waiting cursor :-) (I will document it in choices)

Yeah Roel - the GUI part is taking me definitely too much time. DB, Data class, BLL was a pleasure to solve. GUI is a horror... I guess I'll just cut what I have to the minimum in the sake of simplicity.