Change Mouse Pointer Shape

Is there any way to change the shape of the cursor by using applescript?
My script is doing some work wich can require a number of seconds to complete. I would like the user to be informed by changing the shape of the pointer to the standard waiting animation used by OS X.
Thanks in advance

If you are referring to the spinning rainbow wheel, that is not a wait cursor, that is "the application is not responding" indicator. To follow Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, you should use a progress indicator - my preference is the BP Progress Bar.

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Hi- I've got a single threaded JFrame-based application in which I want to change the mouse pointer to indicate 'busy' when it's doing stuff eg. loading a file. So within my extended JFrame method for handling menu selections I've got:
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Ok, thanks - full demo program below.
When you hit the ok button (just 5 second sleep), the mouse pointer changes to 'busy'. It reverts to normal if you move the pointer off the frame, but goes back to 'busy' if you move it back onto the frame.
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package test;
import java.awt.Cursor;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Main
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            super(text);
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}Edited by: matth1j on Nov 12, 2008 2:44 AM code tidy
Edited by: matth1j on Nov 12, 2008 2:45 AM code tidy

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The answer helped me.But still, what are the settings that I have to change for the behavior of the mouse pointer towards finder? Also the mouse pointer sometimes doesn't accept my command and start clicking itself.what is the problem and how to fix it?

The answer helped me.But still, what are the settings that I have to change for the behavior of the mouse pointer towards finder? Also the mouse pointer sometimes doesn't accept my command and start clicking itself.what is the problem and how to fix it?

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