wanted. english word.

[Jonathan Feinberg]

Laura Creighton <lac at cd.chalmers.se> writes:

> What do you call the thing that pops up and says `Searching' or something
> to reassure the user that his computer hasn't crashed and the application
> is still running? 

Well, Tog and other Macintosh GUI evangelists (past and present) would
probably call such a thing an "hourglass".  It should appear whenever
an action will take longer than a second or so, and it should be
animated.

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