in the name of accessibility and the disabled community

[shadeofgrey]

please do something about the fact that the standard cusor in neooffice is that god forsaken blinking line. it would really help those of us with sight problems and other visual disabilities and tracking issues if you would please add the ability to transform the standard cursor into a full size square and also include the capacity to disable blinking.

i dont presume to understand how complicated coding that feature would be but i cant stress how critical this issue is... the creators of both writeroom and scrivener have both implemented the feature but the bottom line is that there are situations where the full power of neo-office is necessary and i cant begin to tell you how much time i lose in a given day to tracking that stupid thin line. zooming in and full screen mode only do so much...

please try and understand - i can move one lkimb undermy own power and can thus only type with four fingers which means theres only so much text i can generate in an hour and aspiring novelists have lots of typing in their daily lives - which means i have to sacrifice four times the hours to generate a few chapters a day and thus time i waste dealing with visual issues are nothing less than critical. most people with my disability are dead by 18 and ill be 27 in september, but i still have 9 books to write before i can finally let go and call my lifes work finished, but the bottom line is that - to reach this point i've accepted the responsibility of taking unreal quantities of medication to battle the every day issues that would keep a lesser person from typing at all. every time i boot my mac and open one of my manuscripts im struggling to do what the rest of you can do without thinking about it. im literally enduring physical agony to put my muse to page and thus the consumption of pharmesuidicals is the ace card that gives me a fighting chance -- but theres only so far you can go before your organs send the rest of the world hate mail and you become nothing more than a memory. it would improve my daily life and increase my productivity if you would implement this feature as soon as possible.

please - from friend to friend, fellow user to fellow user - human being to human being - ive written lketters to the people that make microsoft word, abiword, openoffice for linux, pages, microsoft works, Nisus Writer express and Pro, Copywrite, Ulysses -- I need a square cursor in a major word processing application -- and unless any ogf you know of somewhere else to turn your my last hope. The developer of Scrivener did me the favor of implementing this feature in his software and as a result i use it more than anything else available at this time, but the fact is -- Scrivener doesnt have the power that neooffice does, nor some of the features i need to be successful and thus i am asking for your help. I'm asking you for a fighting chance at seeing my lifes work completed before my mortality time clock runs out of digits, and I have to face the posibility that every evening when i close my eyes i may never open them again. i wouldnt be asking you for help if it weren't absolutely imparative so please -- try.

most sincerely,
c.r.

[pluby]

There isn't much we can do about the cursor shape. That is buried deep in the OpenOffice.org code that NeoOffice is based on.

However, adding the ability to turn of the cursor blinking is pretty easy. In general, you can turn of cursor blinking in most Apple applications by open the /Applications/Utilities/Terminal application, executing the following command, and relaunching any open applications:

[pluby]

FYI. Support for the above cursor blinking property (see my last post) is in the following test patch:

PowerPC:
http://www.neooffice.org/test/NeoOffice-2.1-Patch-6-Test-5-PowerPC.dmg

Intel:
http://www.neooffice.org/test/NeoOffice-2.1-Patch-6-Test-5-Intel.dmg

Patrick