[ python-Feature Requests-1705362 ] cannot change cursor color in IDLE

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Feature Requests item #1705362, was opened at 2007-04-22 22:14
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Submitted By: zorkin (zorkin)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: cannot change cursor color in IDLE 

Initial Comment:
Python 2.5.1 for windows
When I change the cursor color to another color, it still stays black, so I can't really make black background.

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Comment By: Tal Einat (taleinat)
Date: 2007-05-24 22:21

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AFAIK you can - you simply have to restart IDLE after changing the color
and saving the changes.

This is a known issue with Tk's Text widget, which IDLE uses.

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Comment By: zorkin (zorkin)
Date: 2007-04-23 10:33

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The page on the link says you can invert it. As I understand, the caret
color is either black or background color. You could force it to be
black/white.

Also you should hide this option in selector - it's misleading, because I
thought i does something.

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Comment By: Gabriel Genellina (gagenellina)
Date: 2007-04-23 08:48

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IDLE on Windows appears to be using an always-black caret (cursor) - not
the standard caret behavior, which does its "blinking" by inverting the
background color.
So something might be improved here, but I doubt you can reliably set the
caret color on Windows; see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/84054/en-us


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