Timeline for Was there a specific benefit to inverted (XOR) mouse cursors other than aesthetics?
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| Apr 5, 2021 at 13:58 | vote | accept | StayOnTarget | ||
| Apr 2, 2021 at 13:02 | comment | added | AEonAX | On a 4K TV I have set it to inverted and size to Extra Large, and find it most noticeable in Dark Themed IDEs | |
| Apr 1, 2021 at 15:43 | answer | added | Jirka Hanika | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 1, 2021 at 15:31 | answer | added | Geoff Griswald | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 21:37 | history | edited | StayOnTarget | CC BY-SA 4.0 | edited title |
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| Mar 31, 2021 at 16:41 | answer | added | Jean-François Fabre | timeline score: 10 | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 13:17 | comment | added | StayOnTarget | @Darren FWIW I also have a rather large 4K monitor, and personally I've found the "extra large" black Windows cursors are the easiest to find. Even against a dark background because of the white border, it seems to show up well. | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 13:15 | comment | added | Darren | After switching to a 4k monitor at work where I sit within 2 feet of the screen, I switched my cursor to inverted as well as enabling pointer trails at maximum to help find it quickly. Unfortunately the pointer trail effect often cancels the inversion when the pointer is at rest, but in general I find it considerably easier to locate the pointer this way as it stands out on any background. | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 10:25 | comment | added | Chris H | @Nimloth I remember mid-grey giving me huge trouble implementing inversion in something years ago (probably greyscale, possibly colour). The workaround took more code than the general case. Inversion with a border helped but then you can't do the XOR(XOR(pixel)) approach to remove the cursor. | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 1:41 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @StayOnTarget Well, keep in mind, not everyone's eyes are the same. The whole thing is much like driving with headlights on during daytime to increase visibility. Many argue that they already see the car - which is of course true ... except, it's false, as it's about noticing it faster and more reliable. An inverted cursor brings exactly that. | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 23:14 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 30, 2021 at 17:17 | comment | added | Nimloth | @OmalL On the original black-and-white Macintoshes, you often had surfaces (desktop background, etc.) made up of a single-pixel checkboard pattern, a halftone that passed for 50% gray. XOR cursors were actually very hard to see on those. Same thing for an actual gray surface (128,128,128) whose bitwise inverse is (127,127,127). | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 16:38 | history | edited | StayOnTarget | edited tags | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 16:32 | answer | added | Raffzahn | timeline score: 11 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 16:26 | answer | added | tofro | timeline score: 68 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 15:55 | comment | added | StayOnTarget | @OmarL that's certainly true, but I guess I lumped that into the "aesthetics" though that may not be totally correct. My own experience has been that contrast issues are so rare that I've never needed this style, but this could be subjective or context-dependent. | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 15:53 | comment | added | Omar and Lorraine | that way, the cursor has a high contrast regardless of the color of whatever's behind it obviously. | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 15:53 | answer | added | john_e | timeline score: 31 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 15:30 | history | edited | user3840170 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | fix broken link |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 15:14 | history | asked | StayOnTarget | CC BY-SA 4.0 |