Re: Cursor disappears when arrow key(s) held down

Guys,

Logically, moving the cursor shouldn't change the live outline, since it doesn't change the source.  I think it's likely the scrolling and highlight processing that causes the cursor to vanish sometimes.  I tried it a couple of minutes ago, live outline on, and got both a vanishing cursor and a 'stuttering' effect in the cursor movement.  I started to reply to this email, went back to RDi, and now the cursor doesn't vanish and the source scrolls more or less smoothly as the cursor moves.  I didn't open or close any other apps, so I have no idea what changed just by switching from RDi to Firefox and back again.  I did NOT change any RDi settings.  For what it's worth, I'm running RDi 9.0.1 on Win7 32 bit on a Dell Latitude with a Core i5 2.5 GHz and 4 GB of memory.

 
Dave Shaw


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From: Ken Killian <kkillian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Cursor disappears when arrow key(s) held down


Jeff,

I usually turn off the Outline view, but I NOW leave it on...

Because otherwise, I do NOT get to see some options in the Outline view....

And the live outline view parser, now seems fairly stable... <Joy Joy>

But a disappearing cursor is slightly annoying. I can live with that. I guess Eclipse is doing a LOT of parsing for colors & etc behind the scenes... <grin>

-Ken Killian-


-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:15 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Cursor disappears when arrow key(s) held down

Well, I tried turning off the live outline and it made no difference.

But it is annoying.  :)



On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Ken Killian <kkillian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jeff,

I definably have experienced that myself too!

So, instead of HOLDING the Arrow keys, I tap them, and it seems to
work fine...

Or I hold it for a little bit, and then release to see where it has gone...

I wonder if this is due to the Live Outline Parsing? <Just a guess>

PS. On previously version, I do NOT remember having this slight
annoyance... <grin>


-Ken Killian-

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:04 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
for System i & iSeries
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Cursor disappears when arrow key(s) held down

All,

I'm in the habit that when I want to go up or down X number of lines,
I don't grab the mouse, I just press and hold the up/down arrow to get there.
  When I do this, the cursor disappears (becomes invisible) and I
cannot tell when I'm near the line I want.  The cursor reappears when
I release the arrow button  The same thing happens when I press and
hold the left/right arrow keys to move X number of spaces.

This started when I switched from WinXP 32bit / RDi 8.5 to Win7 64bit
/ RDi
9.01 a few weeks ago.

Since I switched the OS and the version of RDi at the same time, I
don't know which of these is causing it.  I tried turning live outline
off to see if that was it but it made no difference.

Is anyone else experiencing this?