ZoomText – Typing echo or tracking does not follow the editing cursor
Problem
When using ZoomText with some applications the cursor
tracking and typing echo may not function to
follow the editing cursor.
Applies to
- ZoomText
- Fusion
Resolution
One can define a customer cursor in ZoomText to allow it to track the editing cursor to provide better tracking and typing echo.
- Move to the application and window where the editing cursor can be seen.
- Then press the hotkey ALT+CONTROL+SHIFT+D on the keyboard. ZoomText should respond
that the custom cursor definition has been define.
- Then open the ZoomText window by clicking the taskbar button
or use CONTROL+CAPSLOCK+U.
- Then click ZoomText menu > Configuration > Save as
default.
- Then prompted click Yes button to overwrite the default
configuration.
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