A few of our customers are complaining that they can not see where they are on the screen, ie. they can't see the flashing cursor in EditLine, EditBox and EditTable controls.

They feel very strongly on the issue in fact.

Is there any way I can make the cursor wider? Any other suggestions?

I need a solution!

Hank,

Well, you *can* change the cursor with Utility( "CURSOR", … ):

'A' Up Arrow.

'I' I-beam.

'H' Hourglass.

'C' Cross.

'V' Vertical (Down) arrow.

I use this when I need an hourglass. But in my experience it isn't quite reliable. If the user moves the cursor it often changes to something else.

- Oystein -

Hank,

Sorry. You're asking about the *caret*. Seems I didn't answer your question at all.

- Oystein -

Hank,

I saw an app that put a border around the current control (actually, it was a solid color bitmap "under" the current control and it was sized slightly bigger than the current control so it looked like a border). Would that help?

Cameron Purdy

Revelation Software

Hank,

How about changing the BACKCOLOR of the control when it gets focus and resetting it when you leave (LOSTFOCUS). Quite easy to implement via promoted events.

Carl Pates

Sprezzatura Group

To all, thanks for the suggestions,

But does anybody know how to change the "caret". This would be the best solution.

Since the controls are colour codes (for required, optional and filled by system), changing the background color isn't possible. Putting a bitmap around the control sounds complicated.

Cameron, can we change the caret shape?

Hank

Hank,

can we change the caret shape?

Not that I know of. The caret is drawn by Windows (or by the custom control in the case of custom controls, but the edit table uses Windows edit lines internally AFAIK, so it is drawn by Windows even there.)

Cameron Purdy

Revelation Software

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