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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.