>>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.