2.61 Hand Cursor

[Richard Gaskin]

Robert Brenstein wrote:

>> What on earth has happened in this release? 'Set the cursor to hand' 
>> now results in a vertical splitter icon!
>>
>> Oh boy... This is not the robust and predictable environment to which 
>> I had become accustomed. It would help (or at least show willing) if 
>> such changes were flagged in the ReadMe notes.
>>
>> Do we have any other surprises in store, waiting to trip us up?
>>
> 
> Yap, RR decided that hand does not look professional, but setting it 
> explicitely to hand was supposed to continue to work afaik. Richard may 
> know better. I seem to recall someone complaining about this vertical icon.

It's a bug.  There was a spec which would have given the desired new 
behavior while maintaining backward compatibility, but apparently that 
spec was misunderstood or implemented in error.

The new behavior is listed as a bug in Bugzilla:
<http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2032>

No changes are planned for the MC IDE to compensate for this bug.  At 
this time I'm expecting the initial spec to be implemented in the next 
Rev release, which will restore the behaviors of the last 14 years.  I 
have no confirmation on this from RunRev, however, so your vote on the 
issue may help assure an adequate solution is pursued.

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