Solution for Black Pointer on Dark Background

[Marty Plumbo]

I'm new to (and loving) BBE but wonder what I'm missing with regard to one aspect.

I use dark background colors when editing but this makes the BBE pointer (which as near as I can tell is always black and can't be color-adjusted) very hard to see.

What do you fellow dark-background-users do about that? Is there a setting somewhere that I'm overlooking?

[Sceaga]

I am wondering the same exact thing. Any color scheme with a dark
background makes the I-bar pointer nearly impossible to see / find.
Maybe there should be an option to change the I-bar color AND
thickness? That would help immensely.

Thanks!

[Holger Bartel]

On 16/08/2011 at 22:41:26 GMT+08:00 robe...@me.com wrote:

>I am wondering the same exact thing. Any color scheme with a dark background
>makes the I-bar pointer nearly impossible to see / find. Maybe there should be
>an option to change the I-bar color AND thickness? That would help immensely.

I also have to agree on this one. I have used a dark background
for a long time, but just noticed this after upgrading to BBEdit
10 (or Lion) and it seems that something has changed. At first I
thought that it was caused by a different display, but seems to
be something else then.

Best,
Holger

[LuKreme]

On Aug 16, 2011, at 8:41, Sceaga <robe...@me.com> wrote:
> Maybe there should be an option to change the I-bar color AND
> thickness? That would help immensely.

In system preferences => Accessibility (is that the current name?) there is an option to make the Ouse cursor larger. I find that on my displays increasing the size two or three notches makes the cursor a lot more usable across the entire system.

I haven't noticed too much trouble with BBEdit's I-beam cursor on a medium dark ish background, so maybe that is why.

[imtherip]

Same issue here, but I think it's due to Lion, since I have the same problem in other IDE with black background.

And it seems that 10.7.1 didn't fix the problem.

Best,

Olivier

[marty]

I've already done both (i.e. lightened background and enlarged
pointer) to make BBE usable but it's hardly a desirable solution.

So, I take it then that BBE doesn't address this issue yet?

One possible fix for the dev to consider is making the pointer
automagically change to a lighter color when the background is dark,
much as Smultron and other editors do.

[Bruce Van Allen]

On 2011-08-17, marty wrote:

>So, I take it then that BBE doesn't address this issue yet?

Yet? Let's see, this came up on the this discussion group about
five days ago. Have you actually made a request to BBEdit
support? Has anyone else?

- Bruce

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