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#719 Missing cursor
on windows 7 64b if i place the cursor with the mouse the cursor keeps blinking as expected, but as soon as i move the cursor with the keys on the keyboard he magicaly disappears and i have to guess where the cursor is, this behaviour is very anoying and its killing the workflow drasticaly
the application is a good thing because every thing can work well together without much knowedge about latex comandline useage... how ever first thing to do is do get all the path settings right on windows... the integrated viewer is also very cool... but the missing cursor is hell... it realy is blinking if set by the mouse but after just one keyboard input, even if it is a arrow key, the cursor is gone... if you need to move up and down your cursor to some text passages you are navigating by mouse or your navigating blindly... if you must use the mouse to navigate a simple text can get a very lot of work... if you navigate blindy you use a lot of time to guess where you are with the cursor ..... how ever if you write a text or or correct a text even notepad will speead up your work like 700%
this problem is very bad and should be addressed quickly because a blinking cursor is more used then any thing else in a text editor
Never seen anything like this issue
Do you have any unusual settings?
Dark color scheme perhaps?
yes in windows 7 64bit ... i have a inversed color sheme ... for example the titlebar is black with light font... basicaly every thing is gray/light/white on black
but TexStudio is the first application ever which has problems to display the cursor
the cursor is working well in every other application from notepad and similar over to office and similar ... no problems with any cursor at all except of TexStudio where the cursor is blinking if set by the mouse but disapearing on any keyboard input ... even arrow keys let the blinking cursor disappear imeadiatly until reset with the mouse and so on ... its realy hard to work on text without a cursor ;(
What are your color settings (foreground/background) for:
also the symbol palette is not working .. maybe also a color sheme problem
the symbols in the palete are black and the background is also black so i cant see any thing ... its just a lottery palette
maybe users should be able to configure every color sheme aspect of TexStudio even the background or font color of the palete and the cursor color or apperance at all :D
people all over the world would do a lot of cool color themes and share them ... TexStudio at all could benefit from this ;)
its maybe a idea ;)
Maybe this contains all my settings?
its a windows themepack
i did just save it and then export it somehow... i hope this is useful
i dont know how to export or print out just all color values :(
Sorry, that was a misunderstanding. I meant the TXS settings under Options -> Syntax Highlighting.
maybe i can add more infos :D
i use windows 7 64 bit
all that was possible is turned into classical design
effects are minimal
additional i use the classic windows menu from sourceforge (Classic Shell)
every thing uses a unicode arial font
3d objects are light gray
selected objects are light gray on dark gray
deactivated elements are dark gray
desktop is black
dialogs are medium ligh gray :))
windows are light gray on black
background of the application is dark gray
links are very light gray
menu is grey on dark gray
quickinfo is near black on medium light gray
inactive border is medium dark gray
active border is medium dark gray
title of the active window is light gray on black
title of the inactive window is a bit less light gray on a bit less black gray
in the options of TexStudio i can check the option to use the own scheme or not
if i chek the option every thing gets very bright but i can see the symbols in the palette on a light background... but the cursor is disapearing if i move it with the keys or if i type something
if i uncheck it all turns into darkish more like my windows theme
but the symbol palete turns into black ymbols on black background
and the cursor is also disapearing on every keyboard input
maybe i also have to say... i use the windowsVista style in texStudio and the classical color scheme ... but i did also try other styles and schemes in the TexStudio and the cursor keeps missing on any keyboard input and the black symbols keep black on black
what info can i provide more?
i dont know any other application with such a disappüearing cursor problem
and if i remember right i had maybe once or twice seen a application with such a palette disply problem, and most of them did use wrong or fixed colors while other colors were addopted from the windows settings
i hope some one can reproduce this problem and fix it soon ;)
my color scheme is already attached one or two posts above
ohh ...
how to export my color settings in TexStudio :o
i was afright you will ask me that :))
i did install TeXStudio and the problems were present so it was not because i did play with some highlights
then i did also try to play with the normal color and the background color ... how ever it did not affect any problem at all
all other colors are still original
actually i also use the TeXStudio own color scheme because so i can see at least the symbols in the palete
so i did export now the TeXSudio settings and attach them
maybe you can use them as source of information
if you need more ... just tell me what and how? :D
Fixed the cursor color in rev. 3933.
In your current version, you may explicitly assign a color (i.e. your text color) to
Options -> Syntax Highlighting -> Basic Highlighting -> Normal -> Foreground, as a temporarily workaround.
Last edit: Tim Hoffmann 2013-04-23
The problem with the symbols is that they are external images with black text and transparent background. I don't know if there is another solution except forcing a white background.
This issue is tracked https://sourceforge.net/p/texstudio/bugs/718/
Last edit: Tim Hoffmann 2013-04-23
i did assign the normal text color to black and the background to white
how ever it has also a seperate setting for background this is also set to black on white
but it is not affectin nay problem
some thing odd i found
i have in example a line
\begin{document}
if i move the cursor through "\begin{" the cursor is not visible as soon i move through "document" the cursor appears and the word "document" is in a red box and when i leafe the word and move over to the closing barket "}" the cursor disapears again
but in the other hand i have a line with "\input{aFile} here the cursor never appears and also no red box
it looks as the cursor would only appear in the word between "{" & "}" and only if it is a latex command with a \end{XY} statement
only such commands show this red box around the argument and only in such arguments the cursor is visible
in commands without a \end as in example \input{} the cursor refuses to work at all
where can i find the pictures?
i could maybe invert them =D
that would be outrageous great :D
They are compiled into the binary. Here are the source images:
https://sourceforge.net/p/texstudio/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/symbols-ng/
We're just in the process of converting everything to svg. If you want to help, you may contact Jan, who is doing most of the work there.
Last edit: Tim Hoffmann 2013-04-23
For specific reasons, I don't want to go into right now, the text is normal-foreground, the background color is background-background (normal-background and background-foreground are unused). If the are not set (unset by right-click), the system palette is used.
The cursor also uses normal-foreground, but had a wrong fallback to black instead of the system palette, which I fixed in rev. 3917.
In your current version, you may explicitly assign a color (i.e. your text color) to
Options -> Syntax Highlighting -> Basic Highlighting -> Normal -> Foreground, as a temporarily workaround. This forces the cursor to have the same color as the text. You don't have to set any background.
i did assign the normal text foreground color to black... but i still loose the cursor
if i move the cursor through a \begin{XY} \end{YX} the cursor appears on YX which gets also surrounded by a red box, but on the command it self or even the barkets the cursor disappears
the cursor only appears on arguments in a \begin \end statement ... statements without an end dont show a red box on theyr arguments and also no cursor
no cursor at any text at all but just in \begin{} \end{} arguments
but also odd ... the cursor gets visible if i move the mouse over any button
if i move the mouse over a button the cursor pops out of nowhere
more strange ... if i move the mouse out of the button area the cursor may disappears again or maybe stays static ... it seems to depend on how fast i move the mouse out of the button area
it can be any button the trick seems to work ... somehow :/
but what ever i do on the syntax highlights ... it is not fixing this cursor problem
the normal text color changes or the background changes or just one of them but the cursor still get lost on any move, and also ig i right click on the color settings, fore or background... it just dont makes the cursor visible :( (expect of in \begin \end arguments where the cursor always seems to work well)
Here, it works. I'm still not sure about your settings. Can you post screenshots of
Fixed, as far as I can test this. No further feedback on the claimed still existing problem. Please reopen and give the requested information in case this issue is still present.
Someone else had this problem, when his cursor blink rate was 0:
fixed the issue with zero flash rate in rev. 4013.