Newbie: How to show the wait cursor

I have a question that should be easy for you:

How do I show the wait symbol? I mean when an application starts you get the
symbol on the center of the PDA screen with the rotating colors.

Nowe I have some lengthy operation in my app, how do I show this symbol? I'd try
UseWaitCursor, but this does not seem to be supported on the CF.

Thanks,
Norbert

Christopher
Tue Jan 29 21:29:22 CST 2008

Hi,

"Norbert Unterberg" <nunterberg@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:evE08ItYIHA.1532@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> How do I show the wait symbol? I mean when an application starts you get
> the symbol on the center of the PDA screen with the rotating colors.

Try using the following code:

using System.Windows.Forms;

try
{
Cursor.Current = Cursrors.WaitCursor;

// do your lengthy operation here
}
finally
{
Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default;
}

This will show the standard wait cursor , perform your lengthy operation and
then return to the default (no) cursor. I usually use a try/finally block so
that the cursor is correctly returned to the default cursor even if the
lengthy operation throws an exception etc.

Hope this helps,
Christopher Fairbairn

Norbert
Wed Jan 30 06:02:20 CST 2008

Christopher Fairbairn schrieb:

> "Norbert Unterberg" <nunterberg@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
> news:evE08ItYIHA.1532@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> How do I show the wait symbol? I mean when an application starts you
>> get the symbol on the center of the PDA screen with the rotating colors.
>
> Try using the following code:
>
> using System.Windows.Forms;
>
> try
> {
> Cursor.Current = Cursrors.WaitCursor;
>
> // do your lengthy operation here
> }
> finally
> {
> Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default;
> }

Thank you, that did it!

Norbert