Show hourglass.

[kwalters135]

Hello. I'm just trying to change the cursor to an hourglass before the program starts a long process. The problem is that there is a delay (longer on slower machines) before the hourglass is shown. I've tried executing an application.doevents statement, but this does not help. I'm obviously missing something that has changed with .Net. I'm running VS .Net 2005 on Win XP SP2.

Here is my code for the hourglass:

Me.Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor
Application.DoEvents()

Thanks for any help.

 

[ThatRickGuy]

You might want to try moving the long process into a different thread. That should free up the primary thread to maintain the GUI and keep the mouse cursor properly displayed.

-Rick

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