Mouse cursor should indicate loading of a website

[Czarek]

Hi,

In CEF 1 cefclient there is no indication of website being loaded, the mouse
cursor does not change in any way, this is a problem when there is lag, as I
see a white page for a long period of time and this is bad user experience,
I'm not sure whether application hanged up or what.

In CEF 3 cefclient it works fine, mouse cursor is changing while website is loading,
but I'm not sure how it got implemented, when I search cefclient sources for
"isLoading" I only find ClientHandler::SetLoading() in "client_handler_win.cpp":

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void ClientHandler::SetLoading(bool isLoading) {
  ASSERT(m_EditHwnd != NULL && m_ReloadHwnd != NULL && m_StopHwnd != NULL);
  EnableWindow(m_EditHwnd, TRUE);
  EnableWindow(m_ReloadHwnd, !isLoading);
  EnableWindow(m_StopHwnd, isLoading);
}


This code does not change cursor in any way, it only affects the state of browser
buttons. Is this internally implemented in libcef? Can we have a similar
functionality in CEF 1?

Czarek.

[magreenblatt]

It's likely somewhere in the Content API layer. You can do the same in your CEF1 application by changing the cursor in OnLoadStart and OnLoadEnd (make sure it's a load event for the main frame). Also, you may need a timer to restore the wait cursor at some set interval.

[Czarek]

It's likely somewhere in the Content API layer. You can do the same in your CEF1 application by changing the cursor in OnLoadStart and OnLoadEnd (make sure it's a load event for the main frame). Also, you may need a timer to restore the wait cursor at some set interval.

The loading may also happen later when using dynamic scripting, in CefBrowser
I see a method called IsLoading(), would it be fine to use it with a 50 ms timer
that calls this method and changes the cursor appropriately? Unfortunately I see
that this method is only available in CEF 3.