Hi Pat,
Hmm, this is not panning out. Within the callback, running the Busy method against the widget that invoked the callback achieves the cursor change as noted above, but I'm still not able to change colors, text, etc. even with the 'update' calls.

However, you have alerted me to the fact that I was not controlling the cursor appearance either. Silly me, I thought that 'watch' was just cross-referenced incorrectly to an hourglass and didn't test using a different cursor style. Now I see that
-cursor => 'watch'
was doing nothing for me.

Thanks,
Brig

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