Python : Change cursor icon

Question

in my add on, every execution of my operator, I change my icon cursor. (see code) I have to repeat these two lines of code in all operators or there is a solution to change icon when an operator is running?

def execute(self,context):
    bpy.context.window.cursor_set("WAIT")
    ....
    My code
    .....

    bpy.context.window.cursor_set("DEFAULT")
    return {'FINISHED'}

Answer 1

Using a decorator in an Operator class. Notice the repeating code is defined once in the decorator and any* function which you want to wrap that code around can be decorated with the @mouse_change

import bpy
import time

# declare the decorator
def mouse_change(func):
    def add_mouse_change(*args):
        bpy.context.window.cursor_set("WAIT")
        func(*args)
        bpy.context.window.cursor_set("DEFAULT")
    return add_mouse_change


class SimpleCBOperator(bpy.types.Operator):
    bl_idname = "node.some_callback_identifier"
    bl_label = "Short Name"

    fn_name = bpy.props.StringProperty(default='')

    @mouse_change
    def dispatch(self, context, type_op):

        if type_op == 'some_named_function':
            time.sleep( 5 )
            print(type_op)

        elif type_op == 'some_named_other_function':
            time.sleep( 5 )
            print(type_op)

    def execute(self, context):
        self.dispatch(context, self.fn_name)
        return {'FINISHED'}


def register():
    bpy.utils.register_class(SimpleCBOperator)

def unregister():
    bpy.utils.unregister_class(SimpleCBOperator)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    register()

    # test call
    bpy.ops.node.some_callback_identifier(fn_name='some_named_function')

*The way I wrote the decorator function won't let you decorate the execute function.

you would have less code, and arguably more understandable code, by dropping the decorator entirely and going with a dispatch-callback pattern..

class SimpleCBOperator(bpy.types.Operator):
    bl_idname = "node.some_callback_identifier"
    bl_label = "Short Name"

    fn_name = bpy.props.StringProperty(default='')

    def dispatch(self, context, type_op):
        cursor_set = bpy.context.window.cursor_set
        cursor_set("WAIT")

        if type_op == 'some_named_function':
            pass

        elif type_op == 'some_named_other_function':
            pass

        cursor_set("DEFAULT")

    def execute(self, context):
        self.dispatch(context, self.fn_name)
        return {'FINISHED'}

The drawback of using a single operator 'callback' with an internal dispatch, is that the tooltip wouldn't be unique per fn_name. These are at least a few options to look into.