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 <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
