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Re: XCode 4.0 text cursor color
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Re: XCode 4.0 text cursor color


  • Subject: Re: XCode 4.0 text cursor color
  • From: Christiaan Hofman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:06:44 +0200

On Apr 21, 2011, at 12:41, Roland King wrote:

> In XCode 4.0, when you move the mouse over a text pane the cursor changes to an 'I' beam, but the color of that very small 1px wide beam seems always to be dark, no matter what the background color is. When you actually click, the cursor turns into a vertical line with the color you set in the preferences.
>
> This is really difficult with dark backgrounds as you really can't see the insertion cursor whilst you're moving it around, especially on the dot pitch of a laptop, I'm continually having to roll it to the left until it turns into an arrow again and then try to roll it along the line of text I want to hit and not lose track of it, it's really nearly invisible.
>
> On other applications such as Terminal, it's the same type of i-beam cursor, but it's always a contrasting color to the background so you always see it.
>
> Is there a way to change the color of the i-beam cursor? My expectation was that changing 'cursor' color would do that, but it doesn't seem to, and nor do any of the other options I've tried.

This is the standard system I-beam cursor [NSCursor IBeamCursor]. Terminal uses a custom cursor with their own image (ShadowedIBeam.tiff if you want to know). You cannot (easily) change the system cursor, so the answer is almost certainly that you cannot change this in Xcode. You could file an enhancement request in Apple's bug reporter, either to Xcode or the system. Though I'd not expect much action.

Christiaan

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