Hour Glass Cursor not appearing

[Aaron Gray]

Hi,

I am doing some JavaScript calculations that can take up to one minute and
wanted an hour glass cursor to appear.

The following is not however working on IE 6 or 7

document.body.s tyle.cursor = "wait";

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron

[VK]

Aaron Gray wrote:

Hi,

I am doing some JavaScript calculations that can take up to one minute and
wanted an hour glass cursor to appear.

The following is not however working on IE 6 or 7

document.body.s tyle.cursor = "wait";

Many thanks in advance,

You need to give an "execution pause", otherwise any DOM/style changes
will be applied only after you exit from the function.

function startLongProces s() {
document.body.s tyle.cursor = "wait !important";
window.setTimeo ut(longProcess, 10);
}

function longProcess() {
// do stuff
document.body.s tyle.cursor = "auto";
}

That is "hard pause" - it works universally everywhere.

Once I tried to use "soft pause", but I was getting mixed results -
mostly unsatisfactory - by different UAs. You may try it first though:

function longProcess() {
window.setTimeo ut(' document.body.s tyle.cursor = "wait !important"',
10);
// do stuff
document.body.s tyle.cursor = "auto";
}

[Aaron Gray]

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Aaron Gray wrote:

>Hi,

I am doing some JavaScript calculations that can take up to one minute
and
wanted an hour glass cursor to appear.

The following is not however working on IE 6 or 7

document.body.s tyle.cursor = "wait";

Many thanks in advance,

You need to give an "execution pause", otherwise any DOM/style changes
will be applied only after you exit from the function.

function startLongProces s() {
document.body.s tyle.cursor = "wait !important";
window.setTimeo ut(longProcess, 10);
}

function longProcess() {
// do stuff
document.body.s tyle.cursor = "auto";
}

That is "hard pause" - it works universally everywhere.

Okay I will try this. Thanks.

Aaron