Ticket #192 (closed Defect: fixed)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 9 months ago

Working in background cursor when applications are started

Reported by: Thyme Lawn Assigned to: davea
Priority: Minor Milestone: Undetermined
Component: Client - Daemon Version:
Keywords: patch Cc:

Description

When a Windows application starts up the default behaviour is to display the working in background cursor for 2 seconds (see the STARTUPINFO page on MSDN).

The following patch to app_start.C will prevent the cursor from being changed when BOINC starts a science application. 

445c445,446
<     //startup_info.cb = sizeof(startup_info);
--
>     startup_info.cb = sizeof(startup_info);
>     startup_info.dwFlags=STARTF_FORCEOFFFEEDBACK;

This change has already been applied to the CPDN controller program to prevent the cursor from being changed during post-processing (when a program is started 100+ times and was causing the cursor to flicker in a very noticeable and disconcerting fashion).

Change History

05/15/07 11:01:56 changed by davea

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

I checked in the suggested change. - David

10/20/07 17:26:38 changed by Nicolas

  • keywords set to patch.
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