Download the test stack at
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22211
Open it in 9.6.9
Make sure you are in "browse mode" (running the stack)
If the cursor in not in the blue square, it should be the browser cursor
(a finger pointing up)
If the cursor is in the blue box,it should be a object selection
pointer cursor
The script is in the blue rectangle:
on mouseEnter
choose pointer tool
lock cursor
set cursor to cross
end mouseEnter
on mouseLeave
choose browse tool
lock cursor
set cursor to hand
end mouseLeave
On entering, the cursor is locked as a cross. On exiting ot is locked as
a hand.
lock cursor SHOULD keep the cursor locked on a card until unlock cursor
is used.
Observe what happen if you move the cursor over the Quit button and back
out - it remains a pointer
On 8/18/2026 1:49 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote:
All.
I am in 9.6.9, and again, have never seen this strange cursor issue. So why me,
if it is so well known a bug?
Craig
On Aug 18, 2026, at 12:39 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
<[email protected]> wrote:
To be fair, I just downloaded the my sample stack and tested in LC 10
The behavior is different - one might argue it is fixed from hat I described.
However, I would still say it is erroneous. When the sample stack is originally
opened the cursor is locked to a browse (finger). If you move the cursor into
the blue rectangle it does change as it should and change back as it should
when exiting the blue rectangle.
However, it you move the cursor over a button (like the Quit button, it changes
to a pointer, and then when leaving the Quit button, it remains a pointer, even
though the cursor was locked at the browser (finger) cursor. This appears the
same behavior whether lock cursor is true or false. I would argue that under
lock cursor it should remain as locked (finger) until the code tell it
otherwise.
-- Paul
On 8/18/2026 12:16 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
It is a very old bug, and, even with a fresh install of LC 10, it still seems
present.
For a while we tested every new release to see it it was fixed and the database
just had not been updated. Then we gave up. If the bug is in fact fixed, or
there is a reliable work around, like reinstalling the cursor stack, then
LiveCode, LTD should have put that in the bug comments and update the status.
It was/is there job to inform customers, who report bugs, when those bug are
fixed. At least in my opinion.
It may be a completely moot point in LiveCode Create - for all I know the bug
does not exists in that code base - and that is the future direction of
LiveCode.
-- Paul
On 8/18/2026 11:18 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
It may be that the cursor stack is corrupted, or that another image has the
same ID as the pointer cursor. I'd try deleting the LC app and re-installing to
see if that fixes it.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On August 18, 2026 9:23:23 AM Craig Newman via use-livecode
<[email protected]> wrote:
I have never seen this. It is common knowledge? I an on a Ma
Craig
On Aug 18, 2026, at 9:56 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
<[email protected]> wrote:
I find it interesting that this bug is listed as "AWAITING _MERGE", as well as
a number of other bugs in that same state.
If I recall, that means the code to fix it has been written and just need to be
built and possibly tested.
As I also seem to recall LiveCode spent a lot of time developing automated
testing routines, and an automated build process, I DO have to wonder why they
do not just release ONE more maintenance release of LiveCode Classic with any
and all AWAITING _MERGE fixes rolled in.
It seems like a waste of human resources for someone to have spent the time
fixing the code and not roll it into one last build and release.
-- Paul
On 8/18/2026 1:02 AM, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote:
Thank you, Paul!
On Aug 17, 2026, at 7:05 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
<[email protected]> wrote:
There are 1 or more bugs related to cursors and lock cursor I submitted ages
ago that I don;t think have been fixed in classic Livecode.
Here's the one I think applies:
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22211
On 8/16/2026 10:46 PM, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote:
Hi Folks,
Can anyone tell me why the cursor does not change when I switch from the browse
to pointer tools and vice versa? It’s always the browse tool, regardless of
what I select, even though the function is switched as expected. LC 10.0.5, Mac
OS Tahoe
Thank You
Roger
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