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A throbber animation like that seen on many websites when a blocking action is being performed in the background. A throbber, also known as a loading icon, is an animated graphical control element used to show that a computer program is performing an action in the background (such as downloading content, conducting intensive calculations or communicating with an external device).
A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn. Spinning wheel may also refer to: "Spinning Wheel" (song), a song by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears; Spinning Wheel, a 1984 Chinese film; Spinning wheel (animation), a type of throbber in computer graphics; Spinning Wheel (Asheville, North Carolina), a historic building
The spinning pinwheel is a type of progress indicator and a variation of the mouse pointer used in Apple's macOS to indicate that an application is busy. [ 1 ] Officially, the macOS Human Interface Guidelines refer to it as the spinning wait cursor , [ 2 ] but it is also known by other names.
The Spinning Wheel is also the title/subject of a classic Irish folk song by John Francis Waller. [51] [52] A traditional Irish folk song, Túirne Mháire, is generally sung in praise of the spinning wheel, [53] but was regarded by Mrs Costelloe, who collected it, [54] as "much corrupted", and may have had a darker narrative. It is widely ...
The older "hourglass cursor", used in Windows 9x, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.. From Windows 1.0 to Windows XP, it was represented by an hourglass. Windows Vista introduced a new, animated wait cursor.
Example of a spinner together with a text box, placed above a check box. A spinner or numeric updown is a graphical control element with which a user may adjust a value in an adjoining text box by either clicking on an up or down arrow, by pressing an arrow key down or moving mouse wheel, [1] causing the value in the text box to increase (if the up arrow is held down) or decrease (if the down ...
While a computer process is performing tasks and cannot accept user input, a wait pointer (an hourglass in Windows before Vista and many other systems, a spinning ring in Windows Vista and later, a watch in classic Mac OS, or a spinning pinwheel in macOS) is displayed when the mouse pointer is in the corresponding window.
[11] [12] Originally it was given the rather plain name Haushaltsteekanne ('household teapot'); [13] the company only found out about their product's reputation in 2017, whereupon they officially renamed it "Utah Teapot". It was available in three different sizes and various colors; the one Martin Newell had used is the white "1.4 l Utah Teapot".