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Title: Animated BusyPointer
Post by: AF-Domains.net on January 31, 2010, 06:45:05 PM

Greetings,

Does anyone know of any good BusyPointer animation utilities that are compatible with OS 3.1+?

So far I've tried out NickPrefs, though that seems to display a different frame each time the BusyPointer is in use, it doesn't however seem to animate.

The BusyPointer application contained within the BusyPointer10.lha archive on aminet, though that also seemed to produce the above results aswell.

The SleepPointers, though being unable to set a custom BusyPointer, aswell as locking the system up intermittently didn't really work too well.

Title: Re: Animated BusyPointer
Post by: Tenacious on January 31, 2010, 06:58:47 PM

I'd like one, too.  There used to be a good one that ran under OS2.1, but it doesn't work under 3.x.

Title: Re: Animated BusyPointer
Post by: SamuraiCrow on January 31, 2010, 08:15:59 PM

Quote from: AF-Domains.net;540870

Greetings,

Does anyone know of any good BusyPointer animation utilities that are compatible with OS 3.1+?

So far I've tried out NickPrefs, though that seems to display a different frame each time the BusyPointer is in use, it doesn't however seem to animate.

The BusyPointer application contained within the BusyPointer10.lha archive on aminet, though that also seemed to produce the above results aswell.

The SleepPointers, though being unable to set a custom BusyPointer, aswell as locking the system up intermittently didn't really work too well.

There is a crippled shareware one called Magic Pointer that's been around a while and because its filename is abbreviated ptr it wouldn't show up in an Aminet search.  See http://uk.aminet.net/util/cdity/MagicPtr10.readme for details.

Title: Re: Animated BusyPointer
Post by: Matt_H on January 31, 2010, 08:30:55 PM

I used NickPrefs with good results back in the 2.x days. The behavior you're describing isn't how it's supposed to operate. Not sure if it's a bug that appears under 3.x or a configuration issue, but I think it's worth putting in the time with it to see if you can get it working :)

Title: Re: Animated BusyPointer
Post by: AF-Domains.net on January 31, 2010, 09:43:16 PM

Unfortunately, the MagicPtr also caused the system to lockup at random intervals.

Regarding NickPrefs, as far as I can tell, it's all configured correctly, more than likely a bug in this instance.