Re: PuTTY Mouse Pointer Color
From: Simon Tatham (anakin@pobox.com)Date: 05/30/02
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From: Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com> Date: 30 May 2002 09:19:16 +0100 (BST)
Markus Gyger <mgyger@gmu.edu> wrote:
> On Windows 98, PuTTY 0.52 uses an all-black mouse pointer that
> makes it difficult to select words (e.g. using double click)
> on the default black background.
PuTTY itself doesn't do this. PuTTY asks the system for its default
I-beam mouse pointer, and uses whatever it gets.
I've seen the phenomenon you mention myself on NT 4, but I think
it's due to the graphics driver - on other NT 4 boxes the same thing
didn't happen.
The default I-beam mouse pointer is composed of `reverse' pixels,
which are supposed to invert the colour under them, so the pointer
should show up as black when on a white background and white when on
a black background. When I checked carefully on the NT 4 box that
had the problem, the mouse pointer was indeed composed of `reverse'
pixels, but they simply weren't doing their job properly. This is
the graphics driver's fault; the only thing PuTTY does to provoke it
is to have a black background by default.
The only solution I could find (apart from changing my graphics
driver) was to design myself a fixed-colour mouse pointer, with a
white I-beam surrounded by a black outline so it would be visible
everywhere. Installing that in place of the standard I-beam solved
my problem, though it looked a bit ugly on white backgrounds.
-- Simon Tatham These are my opinions. There are many <anakin@pobox.com> like them but these ones are mine.
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