Cursor, Mouse, and Scroll Settings

This section describes settings for the cursor, mouse, and scroll style. For cursor navigation information, see Cursor Navigation.

Setting the Cursor Style

You can use a text mode style cursor instead of a vertical cursor. To set this option, from the main menu, click Window → SlickEdit Preferences → Appearance → General, then select Use block cursor from the Cursor style drop-down list.

Hiding the Mouse Pointer

To hide the mouse pointer when typing, from the main menu, click Window → SlickEdit Preferences → Appearance → General, then set the option Hide mouse pointer to True. The mouse pointer is then only displayed when moving the mouse or when a dialog box is displayed.

Displaying Tool Tips

By default, hovering the mouse pointer over a button displays a tool tip about the item. To turn tool tips off, from the main menu, click Window → SlickEdit Preferences → Appearance → Advanced, then set the option Show tool tips to False. To change the amount of time before tool tips are displayed, change the value of the option Tool tip delay. The delay value is in tenths of a second.

Scroll Bar and Scroll Style Settings

The scroll bars on the right and bottom edges of the editor windows are optional in SlickEdit Core. To turn these on or off, from the main menu, click Window → SlickEdit Preferences → Appearance → General, then set the options Horizontal scroll bar and/or Vertical scroll bar. When these options are set to True, the scroll bars are displayed. These options do not affect edit window controls on dialog boxes.

To set the scroll style, from the main menu, click Window → SlickEdit Preferences → Appearance → General, then set the Scroll stylesettings that you want to use. Commands that move the cursor more than one page of text, such as searching, always center scroll text into view. The following scroll settings are available:

  • Smooth horizontal scroll - When set to True, editor windows scroll column-by-column when the cursor moves out of view. When set to False, the cursor is centered and the text is scrolled one-fourth the width of the window when the cursor moves out of view.

  • Smooth vertical scroll - When set to True, editor windows scroll line-by-line when the cursor moves out of view. When set to False, the cursor is centered and the text is scrolled half the height of the window when the cursor moves out of view.

  • Scroll when - Specifies how close (in number of lines) the cursor may get to the top or bottom of the window before scrolling occurs.