a couple of minor cursor bugs

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by kevinherring, Jul 17, 2008.

  1. kevinherring

    kevinherring Junior Member

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    When I am running a program (let's say Word) in coherence mode, if I move the Word application window around quickly, the icon changes back to the OS X icon with a green circle with a plus sign in it. I assume that this is being triggered as Parallels thinks you are trying to drag and drop. This is a little annoying, but the main problem is that the cursor doesn't change back. The only way to get it to change back is to move the mouse outside of Word and back into it, which I guess triggers Parallels to update the cursor.

    The other problem with the cursor is that the context-sensitivity in Windows doesn't work. For example in Excel when you hover over the line between columns, it should change to a resize cursor. It does not do this, even in fullscreen mode. In fact thinking about it, even in fullscreen mode, the cursor is the OS X one, not the windows one. Has it always done this?

    Thanks
    Kevin
    p.s. I am using build 5608
     
  2. John@Parallels

    John@Parallels Forum Maven

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    Try to increase Video Memory for VM to 64 mb, and decrease MacOS resolution
     
  3. kevinherring

    kevinherring Junior Member

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    hmmm, this is strange. I restarted the VM (without changing anything) and then it was working fine!
    Ignore me.
    Kevin
     
  4. John@Parallels

    John@Parallels Forum Maven

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    Kevin, this situation may repeat in future,
    This is Video memory lack situation, or memory leak from Windows Application
    Just increase memory
     
  5. kevinherring

    kevinherring Junior Member

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    Thanks John, I'll give it a go.
    Kevin
     

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