[etoys-notify] [JIRA] Created: (SQ-328) Show a cursor throughout patch-grabbing

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Show a cursor throughout patch-grabbing
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         Key: SQ-328
         URL: http://tracker.immuexa.com/browse/SQ-328
     Project: squeakland
        Type: Bug
  Components: etoys  
    Reporter: Scott Wallace
 Assigned to: Scott Wallace 
     Fix For: review, etoys 4.0 - summer 2009
 Attachments: grabPatchFeedback-sw.2.cs.gz

Kathleen Harness reports (6 September 2009):  "The grab patch tool does not show once you move it from the bin. It works and from any topbottom/left right combination of mouse drags that I tried but . . . there is no arrow, nor the little plus sign, nothing shows until you start to drag from where ever it was that you set down the tool and then it does show the box outline you are making. The grab patch cursor needs to be represented by something, like it was before."

There is continuous feedback throughout patch-grabbing *except* for the split-second after you have put the mouse down to designate the "first" corner of the patch and before you have moved the cursor to start showing where the opposite corner of the patch will be.  In this state, the feedback for the rectangular-area designated is in play, but since the mouse hasn't moved, the rectangular area is 0 x 0 in extent, so feedback showing the chosen area 

So for that split second, we should be certain to show some appropriate cursor, to inform the user that she is in a "mode" and to encourage her to continue with her anticipated drag-through.

The attached fileout "grabPatchFeedback-sw.2.cs.gz", purports to provide that feedback.

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