Andreas,

Sounds like a preference waiting to get instantiated.  :)

 - Steve

On 5/14/02 8:16 PM, "Andreas Raab" <Andreas.Raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> Stephan,
> 
> Actually this should be really trivial (although after having tried it I
> don't know if I like it...) Go to TextMorph>>keyStroke: and add as the
> first line:
> 
> Cursor blank show.
> 
> And you should have your effect. Note that this may not work on Macs -
> the Mac VM used to generate mouse events even if the mouse hasn't done
> anything. If that's still the case it won't work - but it does work fine
> on Windows (and probably on Unix too).
> 
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On
>> Behalf Of Stephan B. Wessels
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 2:01 AM
>> To: Squeak mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [ENH] BlinkingCaretMorph
>> 
>> 
>> There's an interesting feature that Apple has been doing
>> since the early
>> Macintosh that I really notice missing when I work on Windows boxes.
>> 
>> As soon as you start typing in a text widget/pane, the cursor
>> hides.  The
>> insertion point is active of course, but I really got use to the arrow
>> getting out of the way while typing.  If you nudge the mouse
>> it appears
>> again.  I really like that notion of getting it out of the
>> way visually if
>> it's over the text pane I'm typing in.
>> 
>>  - Steve
>> 
>> On 5/14/02 3:09 PM, "Jim Benson" <jb at speed.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> This is my first hack at a blinking text insertion point
>> (Morphic only).
>>> Tested on Squeak3.2Gamma-4857.
>>> 
>>> On a large display, it is very easy to lose the text
>> insertion point. This
>>> changeset implements the standard blinking caret.
>>> 
>>> This is a basic implementation, it doesn't sit very well
>> with Squeak just
>>> yet. When there are windows with several text panes,
>> several blinking carets
>>> come to life. However, I've found it useful in my day to day work.
>>> 
>>> Jim
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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