An interactive indicator showing the location on screen that will accept the input from a keyboard or pointing device (such as mouse).
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Slanted cursor+background for italic text?
In most applications that I'm familiar with, a text cursor in insertion mode is universally represented as a vertical blinking bar:
As you can see, for some italic letters this creates visual ...
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3answers
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Whether to use pointer (hand) over a button or just the default cursor
Gmail uses the pointer on mouse over of a button,
while many of other websites uses a hand
So I am wondering which kind of cursor is more friendly to users (on web applications), or it just ...
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Designing bidi text editing
Background. "Bidi" refers to the bidirectional text, that is a text where traditional left-to-right scripts are intermixed with right-to-left ones, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, Thaana, etc. Such ...
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When to use reversed/mirror arrow cursor?
Is there an established pattern for when to use a reversed (right-pointing) arrow? I most frequently notice it in Outlook on part--but not all--of messages in my inbox:
My Google-fu failed at finding ...
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Who invented the blinking cursor
I was wondering who invented the blinking of a cursor, because I was just thinking if it wouldn't blink the UI would be a lot less responsive.. so this must have been one of the first signs of ...
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When to Switch Custom Tool Cursor for Interactive Application
When is the best time to display a custom cursor for a tool such as a paint brush in a paint application?
One option is when the user clicks the tool and drags over the workspace, the cursor changes ...
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Are Custom Cursors a Good Idea in Most Desktop Applications?
A lot of people I've talked to seem to be divided on this issue. When you're working on some kind of desktop application, is it generally a better idea to have it use the default system cursor? Or ...
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Correct cursor for “content cannot be interacted with”
I have an application where parts of the screen contain elements that are "dead", i.e. the user cannot, in any way, interact with them.
What would be an appropriate mouse cursor for such frozen ...
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1answer
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Android list pagination
I need to do paginated list of items in android application.
What are the best practices to do this?
I use cursor loader to get data from content provider(cache). If the data is expired the provider ...
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Why are different cursors used when hovering over buttons in Gmail?
In the Gmail interface they are not consistent in which cursor they use on button/link hover.
They use the "hand" pointer for:
Links in the sidebar(mail, contacts, inbox, starred etc..)
The mails ...
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1answer
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Cursor position and movement in Bidi Input.
In the case of Bidi input, where both RTL and LTR types languages can be mixed together, what should be the cursor position? And what should be the movement of the cursor with Home and End buttons?
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Easiest cursor move?
In relation to making a pie-menu.
I've tried finding research on this, but to no avail.
My reasoning is this: Put the most used features at the easiest places (although putting opposites.. opposite ...
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Default cursor on mouse over of a button is not a hand pointer
Why is the default cursor an arrow when you hover over an HTML <button>? I always thought that arrows let you select stuff, but hands let you execute an action. Since buttons execute actions, ...
