Setting cursor visibility or color

[jdhitsolutions]

In my app the blinking cursor is very hard to see in text fields. After reading the docs, I thought I might try setting the cursor to a box.

$txtDays = [Terminal.Gui.TextField]@{
        Width   = 4
        Text    = 30
        Y       = $txtDescription.Y + 2
        X       = $radioGrp.Frame.Width + 2
        TabStop = $True
        DesiredCursorVisibility = "Box"
    }

But this doesn't seem to have any effect. Unless the cursor is a box with the same color as the text field. Any tips on defining a contrasting cursor?

[BDisp]

Maybe you have to change the cursor setting on the terminal. I experienced that issue a long tie ago and I have to set the cursor format to box on the Windows Terminal.

[jdhitsolutions]

That's exactly what it was. The form was inheriting the cursor setting from Windows Terminal. Setting DesiredCursorVisibility doesn't have any effect in this environment. Although I still wish I could change the color.

[BDisp]

We can't change the color. It's terminal specific. With Terminal.Gui with Windows OS we can change the visibility, box and underline settings. With xterm we can change the additional settings:

Default
Vertical
Vertical Fix
Box Fix
Underline Fix

[jdhitsolutions]

I addressed the potential issue in my documentation.