hand cursor

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

Anyone interested in a conversion of the Mickey mouse's animated 
hand cursor?

Cheers
Xavier

> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacard-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:metacard-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> ambassador at fourthworld.com
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 3:08 PM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: hand cursor
> 
> Geoff Canyon wrote:
> 
> > On Sep 16, 2004, at 2:47 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> > 
> >> I recognize that RunRev believes the current implementation is 
> >> complete, but it appears they did not implement or perhaps 
> >> misunderstood the spec that they'd worked on which would have also 
> >> provided backward compatibility as well.
> >>
> >> ID 28 is used by the splitter.  We could change that too, and the 
> >> arrow cursor and its affected compliment along with them and other 
> >> IDs in use for a decade before Rev was born, but before we 
> slide down 
> >> that slippery slope I'd prefer to ask that the team review 
> the spec 
> >> and decide if they're fully satisfied with the current 
> implementation.
> > 
> > 
> > The original spec doesn't seem to be linked on the wiki 
> anymore, but 
> > here it is:
> > 
> > http://www.mathfieldday.com:8080/revdevteam/cursor
> > 
> > I think they have largely implemented the spec as written, 
> with a few 
> > omissions and a gotcha. The omission is that that the spec 
> called for 
> > a preference setting. No big deal it seems to me.
> > 
> > The gotcha is that in writing the spec, I used 28 as an example: 
> > "Tuviah changes the engine to use a currently unused id as 
> the default 
> > browse cursor. Let's say it's 28, for the sake of discussion."
> > 
> > I didn't check to see that 28 wasn't already used, since I was just 
> > giving an example. I'm guessing that's the heart of the 
> current issue.
> > 
> > On Sep 16, 2004, at 2:15 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
> > 
> >> Personally I think this is invasive and IMHO unnecessary. What was 
> >> the problem with just setting the "defaultCursor" when the 
> IDE starts up?
> >> Sorry,
> >> I just don't get it...
> > 
> > 
> > The idea was to implement something that could 
> transparently make the 
> > switch through the entire development process. setting the 
> > defaultCursor would have broken if anyone set the defaultCursor and 
> > then emptied it, expecting to get back to the arrow. It also would 
> > have required inserting code into the developer's project at build 
> > time, which is something I wanted to avoid completely.
> 
> Maybe something simpler is in order:  new cursors use new IDs.
> 
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