Has your cursor ever dissappeared in Design Mode?

jwilder

There are times when you have an object open in design mode and you compile it and get an error. Sometimes when there is a compile error it goes to the error but then your cursor dissappears (I can not figure out why this only happens some of the time). It makes it difficult to find the exact line that the error is on. Also when you cut one or more lines of code and paste it, your cursor dissappears (again this is only some of the time, not sure why). The cutting and pasting isn't a big deal but when you compile and don't know what line the error is on, it is very annoying.

This has only happened to me in 5.0 SPI and NAV 2009.

A quick work around for this is to Alt-Tab to another program and then come back to NAV. This will bring your cursor back and you will know exactly where the error was. If you have no other programs open you can use F6 to cycle through your open windows until you get back to your current window. Finally if you had 50 windows open and you don't want to do F6 you can simply go to Window and choose the window you are on. All these methods will bring your cursor back.

Anyone elss ever seen this problem?

DenSter

Man I'm so used to that I don't even think of it as an issue. What I do when I lose the cursor is select something using Shift+Arrow. If that doesn't work I go into trial and error mode trying to decipher what the error message says and see if I can find it manually.

jwilder

Try Alt Tab next time it works all the time (If Shift-arrow doesn't work).