Re: cursor blinking problem

From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 16:54:52 EDT

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    Hi Paul,

    Good to hear from you I gain, it's been a long time.

    > FYI. IIRC, the main reason we were turning off the cursor blinking
    > inside the spellcheck timer was as a simple way to avoid dirt when
    > drawing/erasing squiggles.

    I see; it seems to me that by far the simplest way of getting rid of
    squiggle related dirt would be not to draw the cursor below the base
    line, but it would look a bit weird.

    What we should though do is to check before we turn the cursor off
    whether it is located in our block -- if not we should leave it alone;
    this will significantly reduce the number of times we interfere with it.
    I have tried this, and the side-effect of it is that when you load a long
    document then while the background spellchecker is running, the
    cursor disappears because the auto timer is blocked, so it only
    makes sense with the timer in an independent thread.

    Tomas



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