[quote]Originally posted by ZO:
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I don't mean the mouse cursor... I mean the 'text blinky thing'. Like when you type, there is the blinking cursor to indicate where you are in the document. Good lord, what the hell is that thing called! </strong><hr></blockquote>
The word you're searching for is 'caret' -- but certainly the word 'cursor' is often used to refer to the caret, so talking about this stuff is bound to get confusing at times. I suppose the confusion originates in pre-GUI days, when the text insertion point was called the cursor, and there was no mouse pointer to complicate the terminology.
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Anyway, lets say you are typing RIGHT now a reply, you see the blinking cursor. If then I use the position keys (up, down, left right) to move within the document, I see the position of the cursor. Its been this way in every text editor I have ever used and in OS 9, etc. OS X has this annoying thing where when you move around with the text cursor, its invisible until you stop moving. That means I dont know if I am in the correct position in a sentence/word until I actually stop moving around... does this make any sense? <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
I know what you're getting at, and you have a good point. It's a problem with the control of the blinking of the caret. What should happen is that when you move the caret, the timing of its blinking should be restarted -- with the caret drawn. They've got the part about restarting the caret blink timing right, but they start the blinking in the wrong phase, so you have to wait for half of the blink cycle each time the caret moves to see the caret drawn again.
This invisibly moving caret problem should be easy enough to fix if it manages to come to the attention of someone who cares -- but getting someone to care when they have hundreds of other bugs to fix is the tough part.
[ 05-12-2002: Message edited by: shetline ]</p>
until you stop. I hate this.</strong><hr></blockquote>
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