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[Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For my taste it should be cleared.
If you leave some active area IMHO it doesn’t make sense to keep any old/inactive traces of a tool/cursor… 
In fact, I find it hard to identify the real active mouse position when multiple (old, but inactive) cursors are visible on the screen.

When writing this mail I have a text cursor when moving around in the text window.
The text cursor also doesn’t stay visible at the edge of the text window when leaving the text window...


Regards,
Bernhard

> On 12 Jul 2015, at 18:46, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hello All
> 
> When testing Andrew's patch from yesterday and the fact we finally got
> the crosshair ported to GAL, I have noticed that when the mouse
> pointer cursor exits the canvas the crosshair will freeze at the edge
> of the canvas.  I have not thought more deeply about this before,
> because it is usual to the legacy canvas to have drawing artifacts.
> 
> But what I really is asking now is; should it be like that or should
> it clear from the canvas?
> 
> Please note this is when any tool except the pointer tool is active.
> The same behaivour is seen in the legacy canvas except it does not
> hide the cross hair in the select tool.
> 
> Andrew told me to mention that he offered to fix it if people think
> that a fix is required. He estimate it'd take him 5 mins to make a
> patch to hide the cursor in the leave handler. It will be like a
> 4-line patch to common/view/wx_view_controls.cpp in onEnter and
> onLeave.
> 
> He is willing to patch it if the consensus is that a fix is required.
> 
> About the inconsistency about the select tool having the cross hair or
> not, he said he likes to have it becauese he uses to check alignment
> of stuff. This should of course lead the mind to think of
> https://xkcd.com/1172/.
> 
> Regards
> Nick Østergaard
> 
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