Re: CopyOffscreenBits question

[Adam D. Moss]

Simon Fraser wrote:
> The caret lives in a dangerous world, since it has to draw
> directly to the screen in XOR mode, which causes fighting with
> the copying of offscreen bits. This is the cause of a number
> of 'caret turd' bugs, and forces the caret code to create a new
> rendering context for each blink.

Would it be a better idea to render the caret as a black-white-
blinking floating element, say?  I can just see this as being
a lot less weird codewise (not that I'm volunteering).

--Adam