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	description: 
		"Cursor management. To do: Provides features to change %
		%the graphical aspect of the mouse pointer."
	legal: "See notice at end of class."
	status: "See notice at end of class.";
	date: "$Date$";
	revision: "$Revision $"

class MOUSE_PTR  

inherit
	
	GRAPHICS

create

	set_watch_cursor, do_nothing

feature -- Access

	Watch_cursor: SCREEN_CURSOR is
			-- Cursor to be used when waiting for the end of an execution
		local
			ct: CURSOR_TYPE;
		once
			create ct;
			create Result.make;
			Result.set_type (ct.watch)
		end;
	
feature -- Setting

	set_watch_cursor is
			-- Display the mouse pointer 
			-- shaped as a watch.
		do
			if not watch_shaped.item then
				set_global_cursor (Watch_cursor);
				watch_shaped.set_item (True)
			end
		end;

feature -- Restoring

	restore is
			-- Restore the mouse pointer back to
			-- its arrow shape.
		do
			if watch_shaped.item then
				restore_cursors;
				watch_shaped.set_item (False)
			end
		end

feature {NONE}

	watch_shaped: BOOLEAN_REF is
			-- Is the mouse pointer a watch shape?
		once
			create Result
		end;

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end -- class MOUSE_PTR