Issue 1705362: cannot change cursor color in IDLE (original) (raw)

Created on 2007-04-22 19:14 by zorkin, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (7)
msg55072 - (view)	Author: zorkin (zorkin)	Date: 2007-04-22 19:14
Python 2.5.1 for windows When I change the cursor color to another color, it still stays black, so I can't really make black background.
msg55073 - (view)	Author: Gabriel Genellina (ggenellina)	Date: 2007-04-23 05:48
IDLE on Windows appears to be using an always-black caret (cursor) - not the standard caret behavior, which does its "blinking" by inverting the background color. So something might be improved here, but I doubt you can reliably set the caret color on Windows; see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/84054/en-us
msg55074 - (view)	Author: zorkin (zorkin)	Date: 2007-04-23 07:33
The page on the link says you can invert it. As I understand, the caret color is either black or background color. You could force it to be black/white. Also you should hide this option in selector - it's misleading, because I thought i does something.
msg55075 - (view)	Author: Tal Einat (taleinat) *	Date: 2007-05-24 19:21
AFAIK you can - you simply have to restart IDLE after changing the color and saving the changes. This is a known issue with Tk's Text widget, which IDLE uses.
msg55076 - (view)	Author: zorkin (zorkin)	Date: 2007-05-25 03:47
> AFAIK you can - you simply have to restart IDLE after changing the color and saving the changes. Thanks, I found that out already. Maybe then after I change that option (and perhaps some others) IDLE should say "Please restart IDLE for some changes to take effect" ?
msg55077 - (view)	Author: Tal Einat (taleinat) *	Date: 2007-05-25 09:57
I just found out that this has nothing to do with Tk's Text widget, which is fine. I'll be submitting a patch to fix this issue in a short while.
msg57657 - (view)	Author: Tal Einat (taleinat) *	Date: 2007-11-19 19:28
Fixed in patch 1725576.