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Hi Björn,

Is there a way to somehow change the icon whenever there is a call to a bean to make some processing? Idea: We click on a checkbox then some filtering happens and the page is updated. If the process is to quick and the filter doesn't change the current UI, tthe user won't have a visual feedback unless we write something to the statusbar. He might get the impression that sthg "is broken". However if momentaneously the cursor icon of the mouse would quickly transit between the "default operation ongoing icon" (sand timer) and the default icon (pointer), he would know that there was sthg going on. What do you think?

Best Regards

There are nicer ways, I believe:

Could you take a look at demo workplace: Components > Animation & Graphics & Sound > Image Capturer & Animator (1) - here select animation type "foglight" or "fogdark". The animations are super-easy to implement.

@cursor: the cursor is part of the style definition of each component. So... to consistently update the cursor we would have to update the style of each component. (How do we do it when communicating to the server: then a "glass pane component" is arranged in front of all other components, and this one glass pane component is driving the cursor styel...)

What do you think...?

Kind regards! Björn

Due to the fact of using the application through Remote Desktop we disabled all animation effects, so the first alternative would be discarded.
The glass pane looks overkilling for this use case, so probably we are better off with updating the styles of checkboxes, buttons and popup menu items.
Thanks Björn