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The Set Cursor Button: Set Cursor Mode

The Set Cursor button in the Attributes Menu brings up the Cursor Modes panel. The panel contains the following controls.

Cursor
This menu provides a choice of cursors. These include the system default cursor (which is probably the same as the left arrow), cross cursor, left and right arrows. Under Windows, there is no right arrow, so an up arrow is used instead (but it is ugly and useless). Also, the default cross cursor for Windows 7 service pack 1 is huge and grotesque, but can be switched for a better looking cross cursor through the selections in the Windows System Preferences panel.

Use full-window cursor
When this check box is checked, the mouse cursor will be represented by horizontal and vertical lines which extend across the entire width and height of the drawing window containing the cursor. The lines intersect at the nearest snap point in the current window.

When not checked, the cursor is the normal small cross.

This tracks the state of the FullWinCursor variable.

Edge-snapping menu
This menu selects the edge-snapping mode, whereby the cursor will indicate and possibly snap to an edge or vertex of an existing object in the layout. This applies only in physical mode. The menu tracks the setting of the EdgeSnapMode variable. See the description of the variable in C.4 for an explanation of the various modes.

In electrical mode, the cursor will always snap to and indicate when near a connection point.


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Stephen R. Whiteley 2012-04-01