Support setting cursor size about console HOT 7 CLOSED

There was a such cursor in the original project (Console2).
Authors have commented out this code in sources.
I don't know the reason. I will see.

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Ok, many thanks!

And even more thanks for the revived project!

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Christophe Bucher <[email protected]

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There was a such cursor in the original project (Console2).
Authors have commented out this code in sources.
I don't know the reason. I will see.

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beta version 1.09.0.13304

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The new "Console" cursor works nicely for my shell, and is correctly resized.

If I use cmd.exe as a shell, though, the cursor won't resize when I press Insert.

In both cases, the cursor color that I configure in the Tabs pane is ignored for this type of cursor (maybe this is on purpose?)

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the size is retrieved by GetConsoleCursorInfo
switching between overwrite mode and insert mode doesn't modify this value
and I find no way to know in which mode the current console is
(GetConsoleMode returns the registry settings and not the current state of a console)

color is forced to white (as in Windows console, the cursor uses XOR painting)
XOR with other colors produces glitches, visual result is ugly

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On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Christophe Bucher <[email protected]

wrote:

the size is retrieved by GetConsoleCursorInfo
switching between overwrite mode and insert mode doesn't modify this value
and I find no way to know in which mode the current console is

My shell uses SetConsoleCursorInfo to set the cursor size when Insert is
pressed. And the cursor resizing works and looks fine (in both the standard
terminal and Console).

With cmd.exe inside Console, the cursor resizing doesn't work; this
probably means that cmd.exe uses some other way of changing the cursor (?!)

color is forced to white (as in Windows console, the cursor uses XOR

painting)
XOR with other colors produces glitches, visual result is ugly

Makes sense.

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conhost intercepts INS key press ; and changes an internal state "InsertionMode"
conhost draws the cursor depending of this internal state

But the state is wrong : if we call doskey /overstrike or doskey /insert the edition mode changes but the cursor stays the same.

I can not do better, I leave the code as is.

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