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[Andrew Zonenberg <azonenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I'll write up a patch to clean up the cursors (GAL only, not going to
worry about legacy since that's so full of artifacts anyway) and push
it to my advanced-feature-bugfixes branch in a few.

On 12/07/15 10:42, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
> 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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