Re: cursors (was running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!)

["Francisco A. Barrau" fbarrau@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks, a lot (as always) to Robert and Carl for the help.
  I also was testing changes in my Startup.int and for me, in xy3+, in 25
lines display:
With BC d cur=118

BC d it=512,3085,8193,...... shows a big/low cursors size for
insert/overstrike.

BC d it=512,1435,8193..... or
BC d it=513,1536,8193..... or
BC d it=513,1936,8193.... shows a big/medium cursors size,

  Also in Xy 4.12, these settings have the same behavior (changing them in
settings.dfl):

DF IT=512,1936,8193.... (big/medium sizes for insert/overstrike)
DF IT=512,3085,8193.... (big/low cursors sizes for insert/ overstrike)

  Of course, I didn't test all the posible values

  Other values make the cursor disappears (2536 in the overstrike
position), many of them introduce or overstrike the character three, two or
one
position back from the place the cursor appears. (Im working in a Win98SE,
perhaps this has influence...)

    Francisco.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia M Godfrey" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: cursors (was running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!)


> Hurrah for Robert's cursor tweak! Very nice, esp. on the laptop, where I
> frequently have a hard time finding the cursor if I've had to look away.
> Many thanks. Now has anyone any ideas on solving the Case of the
> Vanishing Cursor? I mean when it just disappears: one isn't (usually)
> locked up, one can move about and issue commands, and sometimes the
> cursor is visible in other open files, but in one file there is no
> cursor. Sometimes one can get it back by switching from draft to expanded
> mode and back, or by hitting CTRL-Home or CTRL-End, but sometimes there's
> nothing for it but to store everything, shut down, and start over. I
> suppose it's a case of Xy conflicting with a VGA driver in one of the
> UMBs, and therefore probably insoluble, but...
> Patricia
> PS I don't think Dr. Sarkoff was a villain, though. As I recall, he was
> the Mr. Spock of the piece--scientist sidekick, so to speak.
>
>