Windows is stuck in an endless loop with an hourglass icon

[Dentist2026]

Hi everyone, 

I have a noob question: I have a fairly long piece of code, and I've simplified it to the bare essentials to illustrate the problem. When I click a button to trigger a function, I get a spinning hourglass icon in Windows.
Strangely enough, the AutoIT GUI works perfectly fine, but I'm sure there must be a small mistake somewhere in the code. Thanks.

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#NoTrayIcon
#include <String.au3>
#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <EditConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <GuiStatusBar.au3>
#include <ComboConstants.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
#include <File.au3>
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
#include <ColorConstants.au3>
#include <FontConstants.au3>
#include <WinAPIFiles.au3>
#include <FileConstants.au3>
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
#include <Date.au3>
#include <ProgressConstants.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3>

$Gui = GUICreate( "GUI", 300, 200)
$Button_Connectr = GUICtrlCreateButton("&Call Function", 20, 20, 200, 40)

GUIStartGroup()
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

    While 1
        $msg = GUIGetMsg()
        If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE then
                DriveMapDel("P:")
            Exit
        EndIf
        If $msg = $Button_Connectr then F_LWR()
        Sleep(5)
    WEnd

Func F_LWR()
                GUISetCursor(15,1)
EndFunc

 

[Jos]

15 minutes ago, Dentist2026 said:

Strangely enough, the AutoIT GUI works perfectly fine, but I'm sure there must be a small mistake somewhere in the code. Thanks.

Not so strange when you look at your code! 😉
You are overriding the standard cursor icon with the busy icon in the called func.

Try this version that will do that for 2 seconds and the return to normal:

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#NoTrayIcon
#include <String.au3>
#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <EditConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <GuiStatusBar.au3>
#include <ComboConstants.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
#include <File.au3>
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
#include <ColorConstants.au3>
#include <FontConstants.au3>
#include <WinAPIFiles.au3>
#include <FileConstants.au3>
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
#include <Date.au3>
#include <ProgressConstants.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3>

$Gui = GUICreate("GUI", 300, 200)
$Button_Connectr = GUICtrlCreateButton("&Call Function", 20, 20, 200, 40)

GUIStartGroup()
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then
        DriveMapDel("P:")
        Exit
    EndIf
    If $msg = $Button_Connectr Then F_LWR()
    Sleep(5)
WEnd

Func F_LWR()
    ; Set hourglass icon
    GUISetCursor(15, 1)
    Sleep(2000)
    ; reset icon
    GUISetCursor(0, 0)
EndFunc   ;==>F_LWR

 

Edited Sunday at 12:57 PM by Jos

[Dentist2026]

Thank you very much! I really had to laugh when I figured out the solution to my problem.

To miss the forest for the trees!