Exclamation Icon cursor in IDE

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Exclamation Icon cursor in IDE

Hi,

Anyone know why, when I load my c# project into VS2005, my cursor flashes as a exclamation icon (yellow triangle with black exclamation mark) This is very fast and may (or may not) do it every time. I can't see any obvious warning messages anywhere, everything appears to work.

It's a real "did I just see that " thing - it's that fast, but it does happen quite often.

Someone, somewhere, coded it to do that. It probably took some time to do. Shame it's not at all apparent why !




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Exclamation Icon cursor in IDE

  • BeeNeeB

    Hi,

    no... nothing unusual plugged in anywhere. Actually... I haven't seen it for a few days now.

    However, I do have the cursor changing to that natty blue cog wheel for an inordinate amount of time !

    Gotta love the new IDE.



  • Mark A. Richman

    Do you have a stylesheet that's defining a different cursor

    Craig Maslowski, MCT

    12/9/2006



  • AaronBrock

    My first guess would be, besides the obvious default Windows settings, that this has something to do with an add-in. Do you have any add-ins installed (Tools > Add-in Manager)

  • pwhitaker

    No... no custom colours, or cursors, in fact, VS is pretty much out of the box. I don't think the cursor so much changes colour, as *very* briefly turns to the 'warning' icon (Yellow triangle... black exclamation mark). I think it's displaying the icon rather than a custom cursor (but I could be wrong).

    However... here's the results of some totally off the wall testing:

    I start VS with my solution and the tab it's going to display first is the object browser. I watch the cursor. Nothing wierd happens. I close the object browser (so that the tab being displayed is a code tab). Close VS and restart. After an age, while VS loads, the cursor (very briefly) flashes as a 'move' cursor (ie. four-pointed arrows, NS/EW). I close the code tab and now have a form designer as the current tab, and close VS.

    I restart VS and now, I get the four-pointed arrow cursor for a while longer (no controls or anything are selected to be moved or whatever) and the solution is still loading. I move the cursor and it stay as a 4-arrow pointer for a bit while the status bar flashes 'ready' a while and then after maybe 3 or 4 seconds it settles down to 'normal' VS and cursor behaviour.

    Wierd...



  • robhare

    Indeed, weird. Perhaps you have any 3rd party tools/apps installed which could cause this behaviour. Don't know anything else...

    I recently experienced similar curiosities with UltraMon and Firefox (resizing/cursor issues with dual screen). And -only- with this combination.

  • br_other

    No... no add-ins installed.

  • korayko

    Ross,

    Do you have your cursors mapped in a custom way I don't know of any VS component that will show a colored cursor like the one you describe.

    Thanks,
    Anson



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