on 2/22/03 2:43 PM, Robert Covington at artlythere@... wrote:

> 
> On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 02:39  PM, barrie wrote:
> 
>> on 2/22/03 2:25 PM, gnome at gnome@... wrote:
>> 
>>> Le samedi 22 février 2003, à 07:48 , barrie a écrit :
>>> 
>>>> FB has suddenly developed a strange bug. The text cursor disappears
>>>> when it
>>>> is on the left half of the editor window. The problem goes away when
>>>> I
>>>> move
>>>> the window to the right side of the screen and returns when the
>>>> window
>>>> is
>>>> moved back to the left side of the screen. Does anyone recognize this
>>>> problem?
>>> 
>>> yes.
>>> 
>>> this happened to me before FB^3 was released and i accused
>>> staz of an editor defect. in fact, i was changing the clip
>>> region for a window, but in fact, was changing it not for
>>> the wondow but for the desktop!
>>> this explained why my cursor disappeared... if you're playing
>>> with clipregions.
>> 
>> Many thanks and yes it acts exactly like a clipregion but I haven't
>> been
>> playing with them, though I was experimenting with windows and buttons
>> before it happened. I too was wondering if it was a Stazism. I will
>> re-install FB.
>> Barrie
>> 
> 
> This can happen also when working with GWorlds and some port setting,
> and suffering a crash, without a restart. the only way to regain
> cursorability is to quit the Editor and reopening, rarely, but usually
> a restart is required.
> 
> Robert
Thanks. Restart didn't work, I'm about to re-install FB.
barrie