BUG: Persistent cursor in sermon editor on PC

Brian LeStourgeon
Brian LeStourgeon Member Posts: 60 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

Normal Windows behavior is for the text editing cursor to disappear when a tab or window loses focus.

The Sermon Editor keeps a static editing cursor (it stops blinking, but the line is still visible in the text editor) when another tab or window receives the focus.

This is not the case in Notes, which loses the cursor along with the focus per the normal convention.

The current persisting sermon editing cursor causes me to start typing thinking I am about to enter text in the sermon, only to watch my commentary or Bible flip all over the place and randomly highlight text as the keys I'm typing act as shortcut keys.

It is annoying as all get out and my wife is tired of me yelling "Nooooooo!" at my laptop.

Could we render the text cursor invisible when the sermon editor loses focus?

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,432

    bumping in hopes of getting an answer

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  • Brian LeStourgeon
    Brian LeStourgeon Member Posts: 60 ✭✭

    This bug is still not fixed.

  • David Cosand (Logos)
    David Cosand (Logos) Member, Logos Employee Posts: 73
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1311842#Comment_1311842

    Thanks for the feedback, Brian, and apologies for the chaos it can cause!

    I believe the static cursor was a design decision made to help the user visualize where popular quotes or sermon assistant results are going to be dropped. We have a tooltip on the insert buttons for Sermon Assistant results that says 'insert at cursor position' and this way you are able to see ahead of time where the results will land. However, I can see how if you have shifted focus to another open tool or resource within your active layout that the persistent cursor might cause some problems.

    Would it be helpful if we maintained the static cursor only if your last click was within the sermon assistant and / or popular quotes features?

  • Brian LeStourgeon
    Brian LeStourgeon Member Posts: 60 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1312007#Comment_1312007

    David Cosand (Logos) said:

    Would it be helpful if we maintained the static cursor only if your last click was within the sermon assistant and / or popular quotes features?

    Yes, I think this would work well.

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