alain said:
>   I don't know if it is a good advice, but perhaps animated cursor
>   could be realized with a time task, like in the program below

what is this?, a 3-screenful source code that animates a cursor?
isn't there a one-line keyword command to do this?

maybe there's something i'm missing.
probably.  even still,
sometimes i worry about you, alain...           :?)

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steve said:
>   The following code will 
>   display an animated watch cursor 
>   while 3,600 edit fields are loaded.

it is cruel and unusual to
make users wait for that.

i vote instead for doing the loading 
during the splash, and on null events.

for times when even that's not fast enough,
set regions where the edit fields will be,
and have any user-click in a region
create its corresponding edit field,
a trick mentioned before here on the list...

-bowerbird