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| Posted by
| Hapax
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| Tue 03 Sep 2002 07:22 PM (UTC) |
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| Hi everyone.
I am having trouble seeing the cursor in my world screen. It takes the form of a black vertical line with serifs at the top and bottom, like the sort of cursor that you get in a word processor. Since the world's background is also black, I can only see the cursor if it happens to be drifting across a letter on the screen, and even that is only a pixel or two wide! Needless to say, this makes it extremely hard to find text to select for cutting and pasting.
When the cursor is hovering over one of the toolbars, it turns into a white arrow-shaped pointer. It would be nice if it could be an arrow like this all the time. If that's not possible, I would like the skinny cursor to be a bright colour like white or yellow. I do not want to change the background colour for the world to anything other than black.
What do I do? Is this a Windows problem? I'm using 98. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Shadowfyr
USA (1,791 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Tue 03 Sep 2002 08:35 PM (UTC) Amended on Tue 03 Sep 2002 08:37 PM (UTC) by Shadowfyr
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| Not sure if Mushclient even defines it's own cursor types. More likely it uses the defualts in Windows. Those defaults are a dark grey, or even black (since most apps use a white background). You can change you cursor setting to something less annoying through... dang I don't remember.. :p Someplace there is a way to set the individual items like pointers and such directly though.
One slightly less direct one though is to go to the control panel under the settings window in the start menu. Open the 'Desktop Themes' program.
You can then goto all the check boxes along the side and click them off, so that only the one for pointers is checked, then go to the top and look through the themes that are installed, until you find a set you like. If you don't un-check all the needed boxes, then stuff gets replaced you probably don't want. ;) When you find a set you like you can save that with a name so you can restore it if things get mangled, then just hit 'apply' or 'ok' or some such to set them and leave the program.
The only drawback is that you most themes have animated icons for some things and without 'directly' setting the individual pointers you can't avoid them. I thought the settings for doing 'only' the individual pointers was some place under the display settings, but I can't find it. Maybe it was in the TweakUI utility that MS decided we didn't need in 98 or newer versions. If so then you can download it off the net, but it is a major pain not having it (and having it hidden in some obscure place under Win95), since among other things it allows you to do is selectively decide what to auto-run, i.e. data, but not music CDs or music CDs and not data, repair your icons if something mangles them, and a number of other things that should never have been left out of the users control. (Though it also has a few that are probably not something the average user needs to know about as well. lol) | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Hapax
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| Reply #2 on Tue 03 Sep 2002 10:08 PM (UTC) |
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| Okay, an update.
I was on the phone with a friend today and he said that his mouse pointer always turns to the opposite colour of the field it's on. For instance, if he is in Word, and the pointer is resting on a black letter, the pointer will be black against the white "sheet", but white on the pixels where it overlaps with the letter. Once he mentioned that, hazy memories of my own computer doing that, once, resurfaced in my mind. But if my machine did it, it stopped some time ago.
So for some reason my pointer is ALWAYS black now, no matter what colour field it's on. It is now clear to me that this isn't a MUSHClient problem. I tried downloading fresh mouse drivers; seven megabytes and a glitzy 3D system tray icon later, I still have a black-on-black pointer.
I suppose I could follow Shadowfyr's advice and install one of those moronic cursor-systems with dancing martinis or something. I'm sure I'd be able to see my pointer then. But really, I'd much rather just have an ordinary cursor that works. I'd be grateful for any help, even though I realize that in asking for it I am going beyond the bounds of this forum. If you'd prefer not to take up any more of Mr. Gammon's bandwidth, you may e-mail me at hapax_legomena at yahoo dot ca (not com).
hapax | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,158 posts) Bio
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| Reply #3 on Tue 03 Sep 2002 11:02 PM (UTC) |
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| When you first mentioned that I thought "why hadn't I noticed that?". The reason is that my mouse does the same as your friend's. As it glides over the black background it inverts colour to white on black.
Sounds like a bug in Windows, hard to say where exactly. Perhaps this is one of those moments that happens to all of us each year or so ... "time to reinstall Windows". :)
I tried an Internet search, but unfortunately pages with "mouse" "black" and "white" on them occur quite often. ;)
Try reinstalling the mouse - even changing to an animated one and back might do the trick. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Shadowfyr
USA (1,791 posts) Bio
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| Reply #4 on Tue 03 Sep 2002 11:16 PM (UTC) |
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| Hmm. Sounds like a corrupted registry or file. I have a few similar glitches on mine I haven't been able to track down. All version of windows seem to have this 'gee it crashed, guess what doesn't work now!' sort of problem. Sadly the newer versions just make the crashes rare and thus decreases the number of people who might have had the problem and know how to fix it. lol
Other than the usual running of setup from the CD and hoping it fixes itself or hunting around to find someone that knows I am not sure how to fix it. :p I do know that there is some way to change 'only' one pointer in a set, but I thing it uses a third party program or something hidden in the depths of the Winbloze system programs. :p I can't remember what I used. I suspect that it is the third party situation though...
You can always snoop around www.winguides.com and see if someone lists the location of the pointers in the system registry there. That is the only way to A) find if a key might have gotten munched or B) fix the one pointer causing the problem, without loading the full set as a theme. Unless of course you can figure out what program I was using and now can't remember or find. ;) lol | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Shadowfyr
USA (1,791 posts) Bio
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| Reply #5 on Tue 03 Sep 2002 11:21 PM (UTC) |
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| | Hmm. Now I remember.. It was in the Logitech mouse settings. I can't find it because I have a non-logitech mouse on this machine. :p For some stupid reason neither MS nor most other mouse manufacturers provide a means to set them and you have to use the theme control, which sucks imho, since you can't change any of the dang pointers. :p | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Magnum
Canada (580 posts) Bio
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| Reply #6 on Thu 05 Sep 2002 12:30 AM (UTC) |
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CONTROL PANEL | MOUSE | Pointers (Second tab)
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Get my plugins here: http://www.magnumsworld.com/muds/
Constantly proving I don't know what I am doing...
Magnum. | | Top |
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