Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren...
by Sharlin on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:25AM
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Because you can't just ask the OS to "please paint text caret here thankyou", and browsers do not expose a powerful enough native text editing control. So you end up reimplementing one in JS/HTML/CSS, including the caret.
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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren...
by heinrich5991 on Sunday March 26, 2017 @07:54PM
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The WinAPI function SetCaretPos seems to do that: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...