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Bug 313504

Summary: I-beam mouse pointer is very difficult to see when using a dark editor background
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Keith Wedinger <jkwuc89>
Component: SWTAssignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert
Version: 3.5.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Macintosh   
OS: Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)   
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Description Keith Wedinger CLA 2010-05-19 07:49:18 EDT 
Build Identifier: Version: 3.5.2 Build id: M20100211-1343

When the editor background is set to a dark color, the I-beam mouse pointer is very difficult to see because the I-beam mouse pointer color used by Eclipse is also dark.

Eclipse should do one of the following in this scenario:
1.  Set the I-beam to a light color when it detects that the editor background is dark
2.  Allow the user to configure the I-beam mouse pointer color

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open Eclipse preferences and set the Background color on the Text Editors pane to a dark color (black or dark blue).
2.  Open a text file inside Eclipse.
3.  Move the mouse pointer over the text editor.  The pointer will change the I-beam.  Notice that the I-beam is difficult to see.  This is especially true when the I-beam is positioned over text that uses a light color.
Comment 1 Keith Wedinger CLA 2010-05-19 07:58:00 EDT 
Changed version to 3.5.2.  I also tested this on Version: 3.6.0
Build id: I20100513-1500 and problem occurs there as well.
Comment 2 Dani Megert CLA 2010-05-19 08:00:33 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 309660 ***