flashing 'Insertion' cursor...

...it is also called 'caret'.

If I understand you correctly, you want to change the text cursor and not the mouse pointer. I am not sure if that is even possible...

Hmm.. big disapointment.. many thanks Vlasta.

I'll try a post at http://www.aeroxp.org forums because that's were i learnt to do the customized theme...

I'll be back

i did a bit of a registry search on 'caret' but there doesn't seem to be anything on 'color', only 'width' and really it is the color that is the problem...

I posted the registry search here:
http://tinyurl.com/2jefop

I believe the blinking cursor does not have a color of its own, but the system simply negates the pixels (255-original value). This works for most colors, but if your background is gray ~127 then the negated value is very close 255-127 = 128.

I also do not think so, 😞

Ah.. that makes a lot of sense Vlasta... I agree. I've had this problem with Microsoft basing everything on a white background for years - for the record my background is 170, 140, 110 - a sort of dirty brown color but i like how i can use a very pale color for numbers in Excel yet black still shows up good as well.

I've tried doing a printscreen of the caret for the color but it doesn't pick it up of course, it's a kind of a muddy browny blue..

So, any chance of changing the negated value..? I don't think so..

many thanks Vlasta