On Monday 11 March 2002 10:50 pm, Michael Schmitt wrote: - Even though the "What's this" menu item stays selected (blue box) you do not get help any more when opening a second, third,... dialog
well, that depends on the dialog I guess. Only a few dialogs have tooltips enabled (BibTeX, Citation, Forks, Sendto, Texinfo, Toolbar). If no tooltips are enabled in a particular dialog, then the cursor is not changed to a "?" in it. Nonetheless, there are some issues with the cursor (but not with the tooltips themselves). If the cursor goes through the main work area, then it can be reset to the default cursor on exit from said work area. I have not done anything about this because the LyXCursor is a can of worms that I haven't had the stomach to look into yet. Perhaps some brave soul who knows the code could suggest something. (We have four cursors in LyX: 1 an arrow in the dialogs 2 a ? in the dialogs when toolips are on and there are tooltips for that dialog 3 a strange | character in the main work area (why not an arrow?) 4 a clock when waiting for something, also in the main work area.) Personally, I think that 3) should be replaced by 1) and all should use fl_set_cursor in the xforms frontend. But hey, what do I know? Incidentally, you can now save the colour of the cursor between LyX sessions. Here I have a blue mouse pointer (traditionally called a cursor) and a red position in the text cursor (LyXCursor?) similar to those I use in emacs. Needless to say, the blue mouse pointer is blue only in the dialogs. The work area... I'm a chicken! Angus
