mouse appearence

[billinares]

We would like to change the mouse appearance to a sand-clock whenever a VI is running. We were told that this is possible in LabView Version 7. Which VI-function does the trick?

[BJK]

Select "Application Control"on the functions pallette. Then goto "Cursor" and use the "Set Busy.vi" and "Unset Busy.vi".
Or type in the search option "Set Busy.vi".

Hope this helps.
BJK

[billinares]

There is no "Cursor" in "Application Control". The search option does not find anything under "Set busy.vi" nor "Cursor". We only have the base LabView package; maybe that is why. Is there a work-around?

Thanks

[LesHammer]

> We only have the base LabView package; maybe that is why.

Correct. The Help File says "Not in Basic Package."

Les Hammer

[Dennis_Knutson]

Here is a VI that I got from someplace that I don't remember. It uses a Windows API call to set the mouse cursor. I would modify it to have the set cursor function inside a while loop that continously runs for some duration that you control.