MC IDE

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 8:23 PM -0500 7/25/2004, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>That's a bug, which I would imagine would be fixed before 2.5 is 
>>released.  Removing the hand cursor completely would be a 
>>horrifyingly bad decision if it were intentional, as it would 
>>completely eliminate the sort of browser-like 
>>hand-cursor-over-clickable-text features so easy to do in all 
>>previous releases for more than a decade.
>
>Well, no. It is an intentional design decision. That's also why the 
>hand cursor is no longer on the tool palette. The feeling was that 
>users wanted standalones to look like other standard applications.

It's certainly a bug to remove the cursor altogether. (At least I 
hope it's a bug. ;-) Setting the default defaultCursor to the arrow 
shape is something else again, and quite reasonable since most apps 
will prefer this default. It removes a step for the developer. But 
the hand is quite useful in some apps, since it's the conventional 
indicator for "click now to trigger a link". "set the cursor to hand" 
ought to work properly.

(The difference between the arrow and the new pointer-tool cursor 
isn't as clear as I'd like at a glance - they're now basically the 
same shape - but that's a nit, and easy to tweak.)
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