Hourglass cursor

toekneel · October 12th, 2004, 03:22 PM

When loading a Crystal Report through .NET in a windows form, I'd like to be able to display an hourglass while the report is loading so that it doesn't look like the application is locking up. I haven't found anything about hourglass cursors in .NET documentation or online help. I am programming in VB.Net. Does anyone have the solution to this?

k_teoh · October 12th, 2004, 08:14 PM

You may like to try this code in

'set cursor to application starting...
Me.Cursor() = Cursors.AppStarting

CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = crReport

'set back cursor to default...
Me.Cursor() = Cursors.Default

Hope this helps
Kenny

toekneel · October 13th, 2004, 09:22 AM

In inserting this code, I get two errors:

1) 'Cursor' is not a member of 'form'
2) 'Cursors' is not declared

thanks for your input.

BTW- I'm using VB.Net for programming language.

toekneel · October 13th, 2004, 11:56 AM

I discovered that I was missing the reference System.Windows.Forms and added it. The code does not show any errors, but the cursor does not change.

I've noted a few other points of code that name the cursor ("Busy.cur") etc. but the code is looking in the wrong folder for that cursor. It seems like using the windows defaults would be the better direction to go... but still I am not getting the cursor to display.

pajer · October 14th, 2004, 05:36 AM

I am doing it this way:

Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor '# for hourglass

Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default '# for normal

toekneel · October 14th, 2004, 10:53 AM

Just realized another pertinent factor here. I keep forgetting that the programming for windows forms is totally different than formatting for web forms. What I am attempting to do is with web forms.

The code presented so far does not display any cursor change in my web forms.

Thanks for helping!

pajer · October 14th, 2004, 01:39 PM

Well I do not think you can change cursor in webforms at all however there is a thing called buffer I think there might be a way of doing it thru that look at this example it might give you an idea...

change the buffer to TRUE to see the difference

<%@ Page Language="VB" %>

<html>
<body>
  <%
  Response.Buffer=False
  Dim i as Integer
  For i = 1 to 50000
    Response.write(" X")
  next
  %>

</body>
</html>