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| -rw-r--r-- | PC/launcher.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/PC/launcher.c b/PC/launcher.c index dfad44a359..445e96e573 100644 --- a/PC/launcher.c +++ b/PC/launcher.c @@ -500,6 +500,21 @@ run_child(wchar_t * cmdline) STARTUPINFOW si; PROCESS_INFORMATION pi; +#if defined(_WINDOWS) + // When explorer launches a Windows (GUI) application, it displays + // the "app starting" (the "pointer + hourglass") cursor for a number + // of seconds, or until the app does something UI-ish (eg, creating a + // window, or fetching a message). As this launcher doesn't do this + // directly, that cursor remains even after the child process does these + // things. We avoid that by doing a simple post+get message. + // See http://bugs.python.org/issue17290 and + // https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/pylauncher/issue/20/busy-cursor-for-a-long-time-when-running + MSG msg; + + PostMessage(0, 0, 0, 0); + GetMessage(&msg, 0, 0, 0); +#endif + debug(L"run_child: about to run '%s'\n", cmdline); job = CreateJobObject(NULL, NULL); ok = QueryInformationJobObject(job, JobObjectExtendedLimitInformation, @@ -1362,4 +1377,4 @@ int cdecl wmain(int argc, wchar_t ** argv) return process(argc, argv); } -#endif
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