runScript doesn't work to set cursor

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#1

I’m trying to change the cursor based on the user roles. ie: if they can poke it, show a hand.

For the cursor property, I have:

runScript('app.util.showHand')

[code]def showHand(default=0):
import app

if app.globals.ok_to_operate():
    return int(12) # cursor code for hand
return int(default)

[/code]

Instead of setting the cursor I get:

ClassCastException: Cannot coerce value '<function showHand at 0x8>' into type: int

Edit: ver 7.5.6
Edit 2: just created a int property and tried to bind the above to that and got the same result. So it’s not the cursor property that’s the problem.

#2

Try:

runScript('app.util.showHand()')
#3

That won’t do what I want.

Unless I bind it to mouse enter and mouse leave events which I guess I can do as a work around.

Why can’t I just return the cursor code as a number as per the example in the docs:

[code]def getTempAt(zipCode):
import system
import re #Regular Expression library

response = system.net.httpGet(“http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=” + str(zipCode))

NOTE - if you’ve never seen regular expressions before, don’t worry, they look

confusing even to people who use them frequently.

pattern = re.compile(’.?<yweather:condition (.?)/>’, re.DOTALL)
match = pattern.match(response)
if match:
subText = match.group(1)
temp = re.compile(’.?temp="(.?)"’).match(subText).group(1)
return int(temp)
else:
system.gui.errorBox(“Yahoo weather service changed”)
return -1

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[code]And then you could use this expression to bind a property value to the weather:

runScript(“app.weather.getTempAt(‘95818’)”, 15000)

… This would bind a property to the temperature in sunny Sacramento, CA, and would refresh itself every 15 seconds.

[/code]

#4

You can return the cursor code as a number if you add the parenthesis so that you’re actually calling the function instead of referring to the function object itself…

#5

Doh! :blush: