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Changing cursor in an Application/Applet
Posted by Mickael Feledyn on June 22, 2000 at 8:12 AM
> I am using Swing 1.0.3 with JDK 1.1.7(Visual Age 2).... > I try to change the cursor to busy cursor when a button is pressed...IT doesn't work for the applet...but does work when it runs as an Application.. > Code: > if (Context.getProperty("frame") == null) > ((com.sun.java.swing.JApplet) Context.getProperty"applet")).setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.WAIT_CURSOR)); > if (Context.getProperty("frame") != null) > ((JFrame) Context.getProperty("frame")).setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.WAIT_CURSOR)); > > Here Context is a hashtable which has handles of both the applet and the JFrame in which the applet sits when running as an Application. > Thanks much. You can try this : javax.swing.JOptionPane.getFrameForComponent(yourApplet).setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.WAIT_CURSOR)); "javax.swing.JOptionPane.getFrameForComponent" is usefull for getting root frames :) . Hope this helps.
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