Total Commander

Dear Developers!
I have a suggestion.
Here are 2 pictures:
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/thumb/090728/tc1_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/thumb/090728/tc2_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg

So my problem is that when TC is inactive (for example I clicked on media player classic) then I can't see cursor's last position.
It's very irritating especially if you work with large amount of files (as you can see on pictures). I've tried everything but I haven't find any solution yet.

Suggestion: the cursor has to be visible when TC isn't your active window but it has to be different colour than the background's colour is
(maybe inverse cursor can be the solution in this situation).

The problem isn't solved in 7.5 beta versions!!!
Please do something about this.It's very important for users who are working with many files.

the pictures in your links are extremely small!

I took a chance and guessed for the original pictures:

http://kepfeltoltes.hu/090728/tc1_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/090728/tc2_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg

I got confused from it several times too. (and wished to see the cursor)
So support++

But I think the problem is that the control looses focus and therefore can not show the cursor properly.

I doubt it has anything to do with the control losing focus. Ctrl-Click on a file, or shift+select more than one. Go to another program. Files are still displayed as selected you just lose the cursor around the last file. Which is likely intentional, as you can never see the cursor in both panes either.

That's correct, the Windows Listbox control doesn't show the cursor when the focus goes elsewhere.

This TC "problem" is as old as planet Earth. We have been opening threads about it for years now but it is still not fixed.

I know ghisler will blame it on the Windows Listbox as he has for all this time, but is there really no way to solve it ? I always check for upgrades only because I am hoping to find this fixed but it never happens. I just find it annoying because if you use the plain old standard Windows Explorer you will not have this problem there. Ironic.

That's just stating that Windows' ListBox (control) by default doesn't do the cursor colouring, whereas the ListView (control) does.

MGPSoft's TwinKey plugin fixes the cursor problem, and implements a number of things that Christian refuses to add. Of course usage of TwinKey will slow down panel scrolling and refresh (flickering) somewhat since some of the features are a bit of a hack.

The scroll/flicker issue wouldn't be a problem if the features were natively implemented. Except any native implementation would (likely) only be a subset of TwinKey's features, much like the current "ButtonBar as a menu" implementation vs MGPSoft's TCMenu.exe.