Re: setting the wait mouse cursor during a longer load operation

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Stefan Kost wrote:

> when loading a long file I would like to disabled events for the 
> main-window and set a wait mouse-coursor for it.

Here's what I do:

if (whatever) {
    GdkCursor *plswait;

    plswait = gdk_cursor_new(GDK_WATCH);
    gdk_pointer_grab(mywindow, TRUE,
                     GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK |
                     GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK,
                     NULL, plswait,
                     GDK_CURRENT_TIME);
    gdk_cursor_destroy(plswait);

    /* do whatever needs to be done, then... */

    gdk_pointer_ungrab(GDK_CURRENT_TIME);
}

Allin Cottrell