[Qt-creator] Mouse cursor disappearing

[Ziller Eike]

On Apr 28, 2014, at 3:15 PM, Portale Alessandro <Alessandro.Portale at digia.com> wrote:

> This is the (collection of) bug(s)
>    https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTCREATORBUG-11168
> 
> As I understood the fix did not make it into 3.1, but rather into the upcoming 3.2.

To be more precise: The issue is known on OS X, and hopefully at least mostly fixed in Qt 5.3.0. I haven’t heard of any problems on Linux or Windows in that regard, and the fixes in Qt 5.3.0 are OS X-specific.
In Qt Creator 3.1 there is an option in Text Editor > Behavior to not hide the mouse cursor while typing, just in case you are experiencing that kind of vanishing mouse cursor problem (since the binary releases are still based on Qt 5.2.1).

Br, Eike

> 
> Br,
> Alessandro
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> Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Mouse cursor disappearing
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> This is a known bug and has been talked about before. I see this on OS X all the time. If you "right click" somewhere in the editor you can get your cursor back but this becomes quite annoying. Quitting Creator and relaunching will fix it for a while then it comes back. I don't remember the bug number but I know this has been discussed on this list before.
> 
> Thanks
> Mike Jackson
> 
> 
> On Apr 27, 2014, at 10:40 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap at eros-os.org> wrote:
> 
>> I'm seeing it on OSX as well. In my case, the cursor doesn't disappear entirely. It does not appear in editor wondows, but if I manage to move it into the file tree view it reappears. Once visible, it stays visible.
>> 
>> Can't say that I've paid enough attention to determine what triggers the behavior, though.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Harri Pasanen <harri at mpaja.com> wrote:
>> On 27/04/2014 19:41, Harri Pasanen wrote:
>>> On 27/04/2014 09:56, André Pönitz wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 09:31:59AM +0200, Harri Pasanen wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm using Qt Creator 3.1 on Kubuntu 14.04 amd64, NVidia graphics.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Occasionally when moving the mouse cursor in from outside the qtcreator
>>>>> window, it disappears as soon as it arrives over the edit window.
>>>>> This
>>>>> is somewhat annoying, as one typically needs it to position the text
>>>>> cursor.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It seems that the mouse cursor is hidden as soon as one starts typing,
>>>>> but this flag does not always reset when moving the cursor of the Qt
>>>>> Creator window.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Might this be a known issue?
>>>> Is that Qt Creator build with Qt 4 or with Qt 5?
>>> 
>>> Qt 5.2.1, pre-built x86_64 binary from
>>> https://download.qt-project.org/snapshots/qtcreator/3.1.0/latest/
>>> 
>> 
>> Hmm... this might be bogus, as my upgrade to Kubuntu 14.04 is quite
>> recent.  It may be that the culprit is NVidia XOrg driver or some such
>> issue, as it seems other apps besides Qt Creator are also acting funny.
>> 
>> Almost as if the USB stack would go garbage collecting, affecting both
>> keyboard and mouse with occasional pauses...
>> 
>> So for the time being I'd chalk it up to system specific anomaly. I have
>> an another machine on which I need to cross check.
>> 
>> So unless other reports come in, I'd leave off the investigations for
>> now until I have something more concrete.
>> 
>> Harri
>> 
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