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Changing cursor color & size
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00051388
Message ID:
00052233
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>>Should have been more specific, Can the cursor shape be changed in a
>>textbox editing session?
>
>Sure. It'll take a bunch of work with the KeyPress event, but it can be
>done.
>
>But I don't understand why you'd want to.
>
>The reason the cursor is a vertical line is because Windows allows
>proportional fonts. In DOS it was easy to have an underscore as the
>cursor, because it was always a single character wide. With the
>proportional fonts in Windows, the character widths change so the
>underscore doesn't work anymore. What would you change the cursor to?

A darker more revealing color/shape.
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