change from black crosshair on laptop running Vista?

On 09/07/08 22:57, John Burnham wrote:

I have a crosshair issue in the pc board layout tool of Eagle Cad on my

Gateway laptop running Vista Home Premium.

 

In both Eagle 4.16r2 and 5.2.0 on my laptop, the small crosshair mouse

pointer is always black on a black background (instead of white on a black

background as it is on my WinXP desktop machine).  Being black on black, it

is very hard to see and work with.

 

Here's what I tried so far:

1.) Switching to Large Cursor:  This works and makes the pointer white, but

now the cursor spans the entire height and width of the screen.

2.) Switching mouse pointer scheme in Vista:  I switched the default mouse

point scheme from Windows Aero to (None), but it did not fix the problem.

 

I tried to search the forum headers but didn't find any answers to this

problem yet.  Has anyone else solved this?

The small crosshair cursor is generated by the system (Vista).

You may want to try using a different cursor theme.

Klaus Schmidinger

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Klaus,

I tried out all the different available crosshair cursors in Vista.  The

normal ones show as black on the white background of the schematic editor

AND black (i.e. not visible) in the pcb layout window.  The inverted

crosshair cursors show as white on the white background of the schematic

editor and black in the pcb layout window, making the crosshair useless in

both windows.

It's almost like Windows Vista is not reading the background window color in

each of the Eagle editors correctly and is getting them mixed up (evidenced

by the inverting cursor being wrong in both places).

Any other ideas on how to address or troubleshoot this?

Am I the only one having this problem?

Thanks again,

-John

"Klaus Schmidinger" <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> wrote in message

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On 09/07/08 22:57, John Burnham wrote:

I have a crosshair issue in the pc board layout tool of Eagle Cad on my

Gateway laptop running Vista Home Premium.

 

In both Eagle 4.16r2 and 5.2.0 on my laptop, the small crosshair mouse

pointer is always black on a black background (instead of white on a

black background as it is on my WinXP desktop machine).  Being black on

black, it is very hard to see and work with.

 

Here's what I tried so far:

1.) Switching to Large Cursor:  This works and makes the pointer white,

but now the cursor spans the entire height and width of the screen.

2.) Switching mouse pointer scheme in Vista:  I switched the default

mouse point scheme from Windows Aero to (None), but it did not fix the

problem.

 

I tried to search the forum headers but didn't find any answers to this

problem yet.  Has anyone else solved this?

 

The small crosshair cursor is generated by the system (Vista).

You may want to try using a different cursor theme.

 

Klaus Schmidinger

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_______________________________________________________________

 

Klaus Schmidinger                       Phone: +49-8635-6989-10

CadSoft Computer GmbH                   Fax:   +49-8635-6989-40

Hofmark 2                               Email:   kls@cadsoft.de

D-84568 Pleiskirchen, Germany           URL:     www.cadsoft.de

_______________________________________________________________

On 09/11/08 04:50, John Burnham wrote:

Klaus,

I tried out all the different available crosshair cursors in Vista.  The

normal ones show as black on the white background of the schematic editor

AND black (i.e. not visible) in the pcb layout window.  The inverted

crosshair cursors show as white on the white background of the schematic

editor and black in the pcb layout window, making the crosshair useless in

both windows.

 

It's almost like Windows Vista is not reading the background window color in

each of the Eagle editors correctly and is getting them mixed up (evidenced

by the inverting cursor being wrong in both places).

 

Any other ideas on how to address or troubleshoot this?

Am I the only one having this problem?

It's usually either the graphics or mouse driver that breaks

the small crosshair cursor. Please check if there is a newer

driver available.

Klaus Schmidinger

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Klaus Schmidinger                       Phone: +49-8635-6989-10

CadSoft Computer GmbH                   Fax:   +49-8635-6989-40

Hofmark 2                               Email:   kls@cadsoft.de

D-84568 Pleiskirchen, Germany           URL:     www.cadsoft.de

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