Changing Cursor Shape to Hourglass

I can change the cursor to the Hourglass prior to a long running process like so :
setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor (Cursor.WAIT_CURSOR));
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().sync();
Problem is that the cursor reverts to it's default state when the cursor is moved off the Applet or I switch to another application. This gives the impression that the background task has finished, when it hasn't.
Please can anyone tell me how to prevent this.
Hopefully simply as I'm only just a starting out Java programmer !
Thanks
Richard

I had the same problem in a project. One thing is that it was a bug in early versions of the jdk/jre 1.1.x. So if you for example try to run your applet in netscape 4.x, then you will see this bug.
Actually I think there is another problem. Your applet is busy and you move your cursor away from the applet and then back in. The thread is busy so how will it be able to change the cursor to the hour glass? I mean, if you put another window on top of your applet and remove the window again, the applet won't repaint itself before it finishes the task it is doing. And I think the same might go for the cursor (maybe I'm wrong). Otherwise, try to run your applet with jre1.3.x and see if it works there (you can also try with netscape 6.x which uses the same jre).
Instead of using the hour glass, you could perhaps do something else in your applet showing that it is busy..

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