Never did solve it. I just removed the animation and displayed a wait window instead. A shame! There were never delays in clicking other objects on the form, just the annoying flashing of the mouse cursor.



>No responses in a few days... Did you ever solve it? Even if you did solve it the new problem is that when a the user tries to click something there will be a delay and they may think the program has crashed.
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>>Is there a way to suppress the 'busy' hour glass icon from appearing everytime a timer event fires? I have a timer that fires about three times per second an it creates a visual annoyance.
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>>I have tried code in the mouseover of every other object and even another timer with shorter intervals to change the cursor.