Feature request: disable cursor blinking

[olivierkes]

Disable cursor blinking in order to reduce distractions. See #163.

That can be easily done with QApplication::cursorFlashTime and QStyleHints::cursorFlashTime.

[olivierkes]

You can now disable cursor blinking in settings:

It doesn't work on my system, but I've been calling qApp.setCursorFlashTime(0) just like many other coders do. It might be my qt version that is buggy (same as for text alignment/justify).

Please tell me if it works for you (it's on branch future)

[gedakc]

When I enable the Disable blinking checkbox, the cursor stops blinking.
However when I disable the Disable blinking checkbox, the cursor fails to start blinking again.

In the console I see the following messages:

$ manuskript &
Debug: Web rendering engine used: QWebView
Running manuskript version 0.4.0.
Note: No translator found or loaded for locale en_CA.
Loading: /home/gedakc/tmp/deleteme-6.msk
Detected file format version: 1. Zip: True.
Project /home/gedakc/tmp/deleteme-6.msk loaded.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/gedakc/workspace/manuskript/bin/../manuskript/settingsWindow.py", line 488, in setApplicationCursorBlinking
    qApp.setCursorFlashTime(mw._defaultCursorFlashTime)
NameError: name 'mw' is not defined

[olivierkes]

Thanks, fixed. Though I thought I tested that, strange... Anyway, I'm going to check if I can install a newer version of Qt.

[gedakc]

Using the latest feature/future branch with last commit d78b819 I confirm that enabling and disabling of the blinking cursor works.

Regarding different versions of Qt, I find it useful to have Virtual Machines with different distro versions each containing the default Qt version for that distro version.

[vithiri]

Confirmed as above here as well. 😃

[olivierkes]

Updated my Qt version and was able to confirm as well. Thanks for testing !

Regarding different versions of Qt, I find it useful to have Virtual Machines with different distro versions each containing the default Qt version for that distro version.

Good idea. But right now I only have a cheap chromebook running ubuntu with crouton, and less than 1gb disk free, so this is unfortunately not an option. :)

[gedakc]

Regarding no room for virtual machines: No worries. It was just a suggestion, and yes you are correct that it would required significantly more resources than "1GB disk free".

Kudos to you developing on an inexpensive chromebook. It speaks well for Manuskript running on low spec computers if Manuksript can also be developed on the same. :-)

[gedakc]

Changing milestone to 0.5.0 because the enhancement was committed on Oct. 19, 2017 and hence included in the 0.5.0 release on Oct. 31, 2017. This milestone correction is being done to ensure that the github_changelog_generator functions properly to automatically create CHANGELOG.md.