Purpose : Replaces the current cursor with a hour glass cursor.

Format: BUSY_CURSOR

Notes:  Use this statement to indicate that the CPU is busy executing a lengthy mathematical  LOOP  or  PROCESS  operation.

Examples:

# This script will display a hour glass cursor
# during a long loop calculation.

print "Executing a LOOP calculation 100000 times."

a = 0
busy_cursor
loop begin 100000

a = a + 1
loop end

norm_cursor
pause "Calculations completed. Result = " a

exit

See Also:  NORM_CURSOR