Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - Change Mouse Pointer for Long Operations

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~Sigmund Cishipilitobu

May 18, 2011, 8:57 PM

5 Posts

Change Mouse Pointer for Long Operations

Category: Performance
Platform: All
Release: 8.5.2
Role: Developer
Tags: long wait,mouse pointer icon,hourglass
Replies: 2

Should the mouse pointer for X-Pages change automatically to an hourglass for long operations?

I have a 4 million + record databas running locally on laptops, for some of the search operations, there is a VERY long wait for results. (The client is skimping on RAM, so managing user expectations is one of our main challenges. It seems that the X-Pages task doesn't seem to automatically indicate in any way that an operation is running. Do we have to change the mouse icon with a custom style and an even change? Or is there a way to enable this automically?

Thanks,

John

~Holly Zekhipisonnivu

May 23, 2011, 8:44 PM

64 Posts

Doesn' the CSS cursor: attribute manage this?

- Or it may be better to toss up a viel and a throbber to prevent interaction across the board?

Hope this helps...

~Sigmund Cishipilitobu

Jun 3, 2011, 7:11 PM

5 Posts

Re: Doesn' the CSS cursor: attribute manage this?

On the edit box, I just used the following code on the change event for the client side:

document.body.style.cursor = 'wait';