Random rainbow spinning wheel on cursor

[trevix]

Developing with LC 9.6.5 on OSX, I noticed that sometime the cursor get replaced (only if LC is active and focused) by the rainbow spinning wheel, like if LC was doing something else in the background.
This thing can last several seconds (3 up to 10) and it locks any possible action on LC. As you can imaging it is rather annoying.
It happens only if the stack is not doing anything (no script running).

I recently bought the ProPack extension. I wonder if the two things are related...
Note that no mobile hardware is attached to the Mac and the iOS simulator is not launched.

Anyobdy else got this?

[stam]

I have pro as well but not seen this. (9.6.5 and 10dp1).

I take it this affects you no matter which stack you’re working on? Or is it one specific stack of here you see this?

[richmond62]

t happens only if the stack is not doing anything (no script running)

Are you sure it really has anything to do with Livecode and is not the underlying
operating system "playing silly buggers"?

[trevix]

I am pretty sure that it is related to LC, since moving the cursor out of LC windows, it revert to normal. And back to rainbow if I return to LC.
It is random and, for what I can tell, it appears only if working on my App (not on other stacks), even if no script is running and it seems completely at rest.
What can I do to find out if there is some mysterious process going on in background?

[richmond62]

I tried:

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on mouseUp
   put the pendingMessages into fld "ff"
end mouseUp

and got a list of . . .

[dunbarx]

Richmond implies that you might:

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repeat for each line tLine in the pendingMessages
    cancel item 1 of tLine
  end repeat

Worth trying...

Craig

[rkriesel]

Hi, Craig.

Or,

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get flushEvents("all")

-- Dick

[trevix]

Stack at rest on development, no script running, no MY pending messages running, no simulator running, no hardware device attached, script debug mode= off:
- Getting the rainbow wheel

- PendingMessages from Msg:

995,1639741075.604425,__EnsureAccept,stack "/Applications/LiveCode 9.6.5.app/Contents/Tools/Extensions/com.livecode.library.remotedebugger/remotedebugger.livecode"
819,1639741089.326881,__revInternal_SavePreferences,stack "/Applications/LiveCode 9.6.5.app/Contents/Tools/Toolset/home.livecodescript"

Strange enough in the Project browser I also get listed tons of merg demo stacks (mergAccessory demo, mergAnswerColor Demo, etc)

[trevix]

SOLVED
I was using "Figma", a web based shared UI development, in the background, running on safari.
Somehow, only LC was penalised by the fact that Figma was (I guess) checking and re-checking the the web. No other apps.
Once I close Figma, the rainbow wheel disappears.
Odd...