Cursor Disappearing in Ship Maker

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Cursor Disappearing in Ship Maker

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This is a relatively minor yet evilly irritating problem I have been having. Sometimes, my mouse cursor vanishes while I use the ship maker. The mouse cursor is still plainly visible outside the Ship Maker Window, but it does not show up in Ship Maker.

This quirk happens sporadically and seems to always find the most inconvenient timing imaginable to occur. Apparently, just quitting Ship Maker and running a new instance of it makes it go away. However, I want to know what this problem is and how it can be prevented.

I searched the forums - plus Google - but ended up none the wiser. Help?
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Re: Cursor Disappearing in Ship Maker

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did you click on a section? (or a weapon, module or doodad for that matter) if you double click on a section you'll pick it up and the cursor will dissapear. if it's not that, i know that not pressing enter after changing a text field messes some things up in shipmaker
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Re: Cursor Disappearing in Ship Maker

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I've encountered this problem a few times. A very few times, only like eight or nine specific instances I can think of in the 3+ years I've been shipbuilding. I have no idea what causes it, and near as I can tell just restarting Shipmaker is the only fix and I'm not aware of any way to prevent it from occurring. Sorry.
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Re: Cursor Disappearing in Ship Maker

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This happens to me sometimes. I generally just select something and it reappears. Of course, its a little tricky without the cursor.
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Re: Cursor Disappearing in Ship Maker

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Don't know if its the same problem but sometimes if I'm entering a number into the edit tabs and click someplace instead of pressing enter, the cursor disappears. Usually it turns into a text line but sometimes it disappears. Probably not the same thing but who knows.
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Re: Cursor Disappearing in Ship Maker

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Actually, I tried using ship maker again, and it seems it happens more often with a portable version of the game. I just installed Battleships Forever using the official executable package, and Ship Maker is far more stable now. Now that this dilemma seems to be sorted out, I look forward to participating in the community of this marvelous game.
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