v1.5.4: Incorrect text cursor colour in guest display when using Crimson editor

[bifferos]

Guest: Windows XP sp2
Host: Slackware linux 12.0
Application: Crimson Editor v3.70 (freeware)  http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

Steps to reproduce:

*Install Crimson editor
*Run Crimson
*From the menu select View -> Set Colors
*From the "Load color scheme" drop-down select 'reversed color scheme'
*Click "Load"
*Close the dialog
*Type some text in the editor window 

Notice that when the mouse cursor is over the text, it is black instead of white, as it would be when running Windows natively. I have run Crimson on a few other machines (always reversed colour scheme and never had this problem. My display depth inside the guest is 32-bit, xorg is running at 24-bit.

Unfortunately not being able to locate the cursor inside the editor window of Crimson makes this color scheme almost unusable. I never realised I relied on the mouse so much.

[Dimitri]

Similar problem with PuTTY / VirtualBox 2.1.2:

Guest: Windows XP SP3 Host: Fedora 10 Application: PuTTY Tray 0.60 (r3) ​http://www.xs4all.nl/~whaa/putty/

The background of PuTTY is black, the cursor is black as well. The cursor is invisible.

[Dimitri]

Could be a duplicate of ticket #750.

[Dimitri]

Definitely a duplicate of ticket #750: I can reproduce the problem with Crimson Editor 3.72 with mouse integration enabled. You can work around it by disabling mouse pointer integration.

Problem is still there in VirtualBox 2.2.4.