If I scroll up or down with my mouse the MPLab cursor goes invisible. I found out that if I save the asm file I get the cursor back again. Or restart the prog ofcourse. /PJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Black" > Spehro Pefhany wrote: > > MPLAB (5.31.00) sometimes gets itself into a mode where it insists on marking > > everything whenever the cursor is moved. If you double-click at a new > > location, it moves to there, but then paging up or down in the editor > > marks all the text up or down from there. Exiting the project or even > > exiting MPLAB and restarting does not terminate this, but rebooting the > > computer does. 8-( The cursor is the 'hand' even when the mouse button > > is released. > I've seen this with some Win95 software, try pressing > the ALT or CONT keys repeatedly. Maybe while also pressing > the mouse buttons. Something messes up between > the keyboard handler and the mouse driver. It gets stuck > in a "sort of" ALT mode, like text block selection. > Also try getting the Microsoft Mouse 8.2 drivers, (or the > latest drivers for specialty mouse if you have one) -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.