Re: Getting a hourglass cursor

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>> The case in point is "C-h H", which (at least on Windows) takes an
>> annoyingly long time.
>>
>
> On Windows, we don't support asynchronous timers, so the hourglass will only
> display if we spend a long time executing lisp code. C-h H is spending time
> doing redisplay (specifically finding fonts to display the various scripts),
> so the hourglass does not display.


Are there any difficulties with supporting async timers on w32?