On Tuesday 12 March 2002 4:58 pm, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:54:52PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > 3 a strange | character in the main work area (why not an arrow?) > > > > 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? > > I disagree, the IBeam/strut is perfectly common, correct, and useful for > text entry. > > regards > john
Whatever. Of more interest to this discussion is why the ? cursor can change to an arrow if you take it through the main window. Do you see this? It doesn't happen all the time. Attached is a lyx document HOWTO that may or may not be interesting.
#LyX 1.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 220 \textclass article \language english \inputencoding auto \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize Default \paperpackage a4 \use_geometry 0 \use_amsmath 0 \use_natbib 0 \use_numerical_citations 0 \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \layout Standard Test the cursor: \layout Enumerate Toggle tooltips on using \family sans Help\SpecialChar \menuseparator What's\SpecialChar ~ This \family default . Here I get a console message \begin_deeper \layout Standard \family typewriter In SetCuror [cursor.c 163] Bad Window \end_deeper \layout Enumerate Open the citation inset \begin_inset LatexCommand \cite{latexbook} \end_inset . The cursor is \emph on not \emph default a ? in the citation dialog. It should be. Nonetheless, the tooltips are active. \layout Enumerate With the citation dialog still open, toggle tooltips off using \family sans Help\SpecialChar \menuseparator What's\SpecialChar ~ This \family default . Note that the \family typewriter Bad Window \family default message does not occur. The cursor in the toolbar is a ?. Move it into the main work area and back to the toolbar. It's an arrow! Nonetheless, the tooltips are active. Move the cursor into the citation dialog; hey! it's a ? \layout Enumerate Close the citation dialog and toggle the tooltips off and on. Look, those \family typewriter Bad Window \family default messages reappear. \layout Enumerate Close lyx and then rerun it on this test file. The \family typewriter Bad Window \family default messages don't appear until after I type in some new text (this) and then try and toggle the tooltips. \layout Standard So the question is, why do the error messages appear. The snippet from \family typewriter cursor.c \family default : \layout LyX-Code void fl_set_cursor(Window win, int name) \layout LyX-Code { \layout LyX-Code CurStruct *c = cursors; \layout LyX-Code init_cursors(); \layout LyX-Code if (win == 0) \layout LyX-Code { \layout LyX-Code M_err("SetCuror", "Bad Window"); \layout LyX-Code return; \layout LyX-Code } \layout LyX-Code \SpecialChar \ldots{} \layout Standard Invoked from \family typewriter Tooltips::toggleTooltips() \family default : \layout LyX-Code fl_set_cursor(FL_ObjWin(ob), cursor); \layout Standard so why doesn't this work? \layout Bibliography \bibitem {latexbook} Leslie Lamport. \emph on LaTeX: A Document Preparation System. \emph default Addison-Wesley, second edition, 1994 \the_end
