Re: Qt help needed with blinking cursor for Windows GUI terminal

[John W. Eaton]

On 05/03/2013 05:09 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> I thought I would take a shot at making the cursor blink in the GUI
> command window on Windows systems. I used some ideas from the Unix
> terminal widget. A patch showing what I tried is attached. Unfortunatly
> it doesn't quite work. By inserting some print statements, I can see
> that the function attached to the timer is being called periodically and
> the m_cursorBlinking state is toggling, but the update of the cursor is
> not happening.
>
> Any clues would be much appreciated.

Never mind, I figured it out.  I needed to call the update function for 
the QConsoleView object, not the update function for the 
QWinTerminalImpl object.  Yay, blinking cursor.

jwe