238406 - cursor often disappears, but comes back after hitting any key

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[hjoksch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

This problem appears when I compose e-mail in the ATT webmail window, and also
when I work off-line and write or edit. It also appears when I enter an URL.

I have a blinking vertical line as cursor.  Very often - most of the time - the
cursor disappears after sometimes only two or three seconds, sometimes after as
much as 20 seconds.  Hitting any key restores the cursor, but also enters the
character or a space if the space bar was struck.

Hans Joksch

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just type ore edit eny text.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Cursor disappears some time after a letter is typed.  That can be as little as 2
or 3 seconds, or as much as 20 seconds.

It re-appears when I type another letter or hit the space bar, it also shows the
letter the key for which is struck, or it enters a space into the text.

Expected Results:  
The cursor should have remained visible all the time.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Do you mean you use a customized cursor, or do you mean the usual caret, marking
insertion point in an editor field? 

(Btw, hitting the "Esc" key or perhaps the right-arrow key might be useful to
revoke it - whatever - , instead of typing actual characters/spaces)

Comment 2

[Ed Sacks]

This has been happening since 1.4 or 1.5. For me it is the regular default i-bar
shaped cursor, the blinking one. The one that marks where the next character
will go, or where the mouse or cursor keys have moved it for an insertion. Lots
of comments on this in the n.m.u. win92 newsgroup.

Comment 3

[Ed Sacks]

This has been happening since 1.4 or 1.5. For me it is the regular default i-bar
shaped cursor, the blinking one. The one that marks where the next character
will go, or where the mouse or cursor keys have moved it for an insertion. Lots
of comments on this in the n.m.u. win92 newsgroup.

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

possible dup of bug 208446

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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