hand cursor

[J. Landman Gay]

On 9/16/04 4:15 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> On 9/16/04 3:56 PM, "diskot123 at juno.com" <diskot123 at juno.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>was changed from 8 to 28 as requested by runrev. The MC IDE should be updated
>>clone the hand and set it's id to 28.
> 
> 
> Then what about the vertical splitter cursor? Where should *that* go?
> 
> The problem is one of backwards compatibility in my eyes... let's say I have
> an older MC stack that refers to both the hand and the splitter cursor. Most
> likely the hand reference will be "set the cursor to hand" (this would be OK
> because it would now point to ID 28 instead of 8). But the reference to the
> vertical splitter would have to be "set the cursor to 28". Doing this with
> the new engine would set it to a hand instead of a vertical splitter. So
> this change means that every person who has a stack that uses a vertical
> splitter (in both MC and Rev pre-Rev 2.5) will need to go back and change
> the ID number for that cursor so that when they rebuild the standalone, it
> works properly. 

Right. This change has broken nearly every stack I have.

> 
> Personally I think this is invasive and IMHO unnecessary. What was the
> problem with just setting the "defaultCursor" when the IDE starts up? Sorry,
> I just don't get it...

Me either, especially since a backward-compatible solution was 
originally suggested.

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