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cursor

set [the] cursor to cursor

The cursor property sets the image that appears as the pointer on the screen.

Note: cursor is a set-only property. You cannot get the current value of the cursor from a script.

HyperCard provides a number of built-in cursors that you can use. (HyperCard automatically resets the cursor to the image for the current tool on idle—when no other action is happening.)

The built-in cursors are:

Ibeam (or 1)
cross (or 2)
plus (or 3)
watch (or 4)
hand
arrow
busy
none

The busy cursor rotates an eighth of a turn each time you call it.

Examples

set the cursor to 1
set the cursor to 4
set the cursor to Ibeam
set the cursor to none
set the cursor to watch

repeat with i = 1 to 100
  set the cursor to busy -- spins the beach ball
  ...
end repeat

Demo Script

on rotateCursors
   repeat with cursorNumber = 1 to 4
     set the cursor to cursorNumber
     wait 30
   end repeat
   set the cursor to hand
   wait 30
   set the cursor to arrow
   wait 30
   set the cursor to balloon -- a cursor in the HyperCard Help stack
   wait 30
   repeat for 73
     set the cursor to busy
     wait 1
   end repeat
 end rotateCursors

Placeholders

cursor
An expression, used to set the cursor property in a script, that evaluates to one of these names:

Ibeam
cross
plus
watch
hand
arrow
busy
none

Additionally, the first four names can be referred to by number:

Ibeam      1
cross      2
plus       3
watch      4

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Properties

cursor

fixedLineHeight

lockErrorDialogs

longWindowTitles

number (property)

printTextHeight

reportTemplates

scriptingLanguage

variableWatcher

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