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[bachdog]

Can I hold off a mouse click until an hourglass is gone? Here's my situation. I'm running a report and after it collects the data, it then launches a viewer. While collecting the data, which can take some time depending on the size of the report, an hourglass is present. After the data is retrieved, the viewer is automatically launched, I then have to save the report. I don't want my mouse to try to save the report until after the data has been retrieved and then shown on the viewer. I can use a delay, but that isn't as foolproof, because sometimes network activity can impact the return time of the report.

Thanks to anyone who can help.

Mark

[Pallie]

Hi Mark

I had a simialr question and Chris made a good suggestion here
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=458&highlight=egg+timer
As a result I just put the following in the script and it worked a treat. You may need to adjust the sleep time depending on your app.

[bachdog]

Thanks Mike.

I had to adjust the code you sent slightly. This is part of the same application, just a delay, so I changed AppStarting to Arrow in your code; however, if the mouse moves outside the active window then the cursor changes. I'm now working on locking the mouse from the user and setting its position in the box so the hourglass remains.

Thanks again,

Mark

[Pallie]

I tried the same thing, trying to keep the mouse inside the window but it did not really work. Here is what I came up with in case it helps

[jack]

you could briefly reactivate the target window and then check the cursor. you could then, if it makes sense, flip back to the window that was active at the start.

it could get a bit annoying for a user who insists on changing to another window.

jack