Hourglass - revolving cirlce - whatever

[TOPSie]

I have a very complex form displaying "today's" data. It takes a second or too to load due to the complexity. On the screen are two buttons (commands). Press the left hand one and the date is reset to yesterday and the screen refreshes with yesterday's data. Press the right hand one and you get tomorrow. As soon as you press either of these two buttons the cursor changes from the little arrow to a revolving circle. But nowhere in the code or the button properties can I see anything which indicates a change in the pointer.

If (for experiment) I create another button and add code to click one of these buttons (cmdTomorrow_Click) then the pointer does not change????

So what causes a comand to show the revolving circle when pressed??

[Welshgasman]

Isn't that the standard cursor for 'working on it'?

I can get that momentarily when opening a form from the navigation panel.

[jojowhite]

the Busy cursor appears when it Requery your Form (like you said it takes a second or two to output the result).
maybe after the code of your Left and right arrow, you explicitly change the cursor to Normal:

DoCmd.Hourglass False

[June7]

It does seem odd you would see circle cursor when clicking button directly but not when calling button click from another procedure.
I cannot replicate this. Could provide your db for analysis. Follow instructions at bottom of my post.