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bug #43671: Hide the command line cursor if it loses focus

Submitter:  Lutz Mager <rocketsound>
Submitted:  Sat 22 Nov 2014 11:25:18 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  GUI Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  rocketsound Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * 3.8.2 Operating System:  * Microsoft Windows
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Wed 02 Mar 2022 05:15:27 PM UTC, comment #9: 

This is still an issue in Octave 6.4.0 MINGW32_NT-6.2 Windows 6.2  x86_64.

With focus in the editor there is always a steady cursor in the command window. It confuses me on a daily basis.

BTW, this doesn't happen when the focus is on the command window (the cursor correctly disappears from the editor window).

N De Zanche <dezanche>
Sat 10 Feb 2018 12:40:57 PM UTC, comment #8: 

I still, with Octave 4.2.1, have two blinking I-beams when Command Window is focused, and one blinking + one steady when Editor is focused. This is at the very least confusing, and coloring the title bars is just a crutch, which hardly helps, since blinking inside an unrelated editor distracts.
Just look at any other application which uses native Qt/GTK text edit widgets — you'll never see inactive edit widget to have a text cursor, much less blinking one.

Ruslan <l0110111>
Tue 23 Dec 2014 03:35:01 PM UTC, comment #7: 

Instead of hiding the cursor changeset
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/d93293218966
offers the possibility to chose different colors for the title bar of active and not active dock widgets which is in general helpful for a better overview.

Torsten Lilge <ttl>
Group Member
Wed 26 Nov 2014 11:13:32 AM UTC, comment #6: 

IMO only the so called "IBeam"-Cursor (the tiny bar) should be hidden when losing focus, the open/unfilled rectangle is fine.

Lutz Mager <rocketsound>
Tue 25 Nov 2014 04:06:23 AM UTC, comment #5: 

Is this really a problem?  A steady open rectangle is also what I see with gnome terminal, so at least the behavior seems consistent to other command windows that I use.

John W. Eaton <jwe>
Group administrator
Mon 24 Nov 2014 09:15:23 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Same behavior with a block on my Ubuntu system.

Should we hide the other cursors when losing focus?

Torsten Lilge <ttl>
Group Member
Mon 24 Nov 2014 08:48:30 PM UTC, comment #3: 

On my box (Win7, Octave-3.9.0+ 64bit) a (solid) box cursor changes into an open rectangle when focus is out of the command pane.

Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
Group Member
Sun 23 Nov 2014 04:52:07 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Yes it actually does stop blinking but freezes until the command line get's the focus back

Lutz Mager <rocketsound>
Sun 23 Nov 2014 08:37:00 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Thank you for the report.
At least the cursor in the console window should stop blinking when the console loses focus. Does this happen with your build?

Torsten Lilge <ttl>
Group Member
Sat 22 Nov 2014 11:25:18 AM UTC, original submission:  

If one types something on the command line and then switches to the editor (or everywhere else in the main window) the blinking text cursor of the command line won't hide.

More thoughts: In case you switch to the editor we basically have to cursors. This is confusing because currently the subwindows inside the main window have no focus indicator (like a darker border or something) and thus if you type you can't be sure where the typed text will appear.

I'm using the build from http://mxeoctave.osuv.de/

Lutz Mager <rocketsound>

 

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    2016-03-25 mtmiller Dependencies- bugs #47530 is dependent
    2014-12-23 ttl StatusNone Fixed
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