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From: pjp@sloth.mlb.semi.harris.com (Pat J. Pinchera)
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Subject: Re: That dang divet (^)
Summary: caret in XmTextField (^)
Keywords: XmTextField
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Date: 2 May 91 18:33:53 GMT
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In article <95186@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> rich@aftac1.llnl.gov (Rich Mayfield) writes:
>When I go traversing around my form of text widgets, a little ^ follows
>the currently active tab group in text widgets.  I'm calling it a divet
>for lack of a better term.
>
>First of all, what does it signify?  And second, how can I get rid of
>the dang thing.
>
>Rich Mayfield                          | rich@aracsunny.llnl.gov

Rich,
	The best I can find is in:

	_Release Notes for DECwindows Developer Kit for OSF/Motif V1.1_
	September 1990

in the back there is a list of known bugs in Motif 1.1:

PIR	Severity	Status	Region	Bug Description
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1638	Critical	Assigned   XM	The text cursor flashes (i.e. quickly
					changes from a caret to a I-beam) or 
					just disappears when typing in text.


Although this doesn't exactly describe your problem, it may fall within it.

Patrick Pinchera
Melbourne, FL