Find My Keyboard Caret

[Lost User]

Mike Hankey wrote:

they would have things pretty well worked out.

Of course they do - but to their satisfaction. :laugh:

[0x01AA]

I experience similar things in other IDEs. Is this probably related to Windows rather than the development environment (VS, whatever)? Ok, with MS products like word it does not happen...

[Lost User]

I think it's determinate ... something stealing focus based of some other window on another monitor or something. Except I haven't determined exactly what.

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[raddevus]

Gerry Schmitz wrote:

something stealing focus based of some other window

:thumbsup: This lines up with what I had mentioned too[^] -- that the editor window doesn't actually get focus automatically when a file is clicked, as it did in the past.

[User 13269747]

Quote:

found this: How to fix mouse cursor disappearing in Visual Studio & Visual Studio Code – Cameron Dwyer[^] - I don't have the problem, but it may be worth a try. I see no reason why it should affect the caret, but ... that's MS for you!

I think that's a different issue - it's not the mouse cursor (i.e. mouse pointer) that is disappearing, it's the keyboard caret (that blinking I-beam or block which indicates where the next keystroke entered will appear). (TBH, for Vim I have it set up to make the pointer disappear when I start typing. I haven't found a few to make this happen on VSCode, though)

[Peter Adam]

Maybe this tool can help you: [Window Focus Tracker](https://smklancher.github.io/oldprojects/project/id/84/Window\_Focus\_Tracker) I have used a tool with the same name from the now defunct www.adminscope.com, and it helped me to find out that a USB sharing tool grabbed the focus periodically.

[Peter Adam]

First thing can be pressing the Local Menu (or Shift + F10) button to see where the focus has gone assuming the now focused item has a local menu.

[Al Gonzalez]

I seem to have the issue when typing on my laptop and the touchpad thinks I clicked on something. I don't seem to have the issue when using an external keyboard. Changing the touchpad sensitivity seems to help.

[jschell]

I see some people accusing the editor of this but I know that when I get up to speed what does happen is that I hit the wrong key combination. Not intentionally. And quite often not even because I was doing a shortcut. And that will make the cursor disappear. And since it is not intentional I will have no idea where it is.

[Marc Clifton]

I notice that too. As you say, clicking somewhere in the code editor brings back the caret, I've also noticed that a few Esc, Esc, Esc will do the trick usually. I think sometimes VS gets lost. :laugh:

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[Gary Wheeler]

This is why I disable the touchpad on any laptop I use, and have a mouse in its place. Current touchpads seem to detect touches and motion without physical contact. I suspect static electricity is part of the problem.

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