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Activity in the Windows system tray (new icons, possibly changed icons) can cause the pointer to become spuriously unhidden when `Hide mouse pointer when typing in a window' is checked.
We've had one report of this on Win2K (5.00.2195). I (JTN) can reliably reproduce it at work with Win2K by sending myself mail (Outlook adds an icon to the system tray when this happens).
Update, 2004-Jul-25: I was unable to reproduce the system
tray behaviour on a Win98SE system, but activity in other windows
would cause WM_MOUSEMOVE and WM_NCMOUSEMOVE
messages to be sent when nothing had actually changed. As of tomorrow's
snapshot, PuTTY will ignore such messages. Hopefully this will solve
the original problem; if it works for you it'd be nice if you could
tell us.
(Aside: the mouse pointer occasionally seems to get shown on my Win98SE
system - as a pointer, not an I-beam - and then isn't hidden by
subsequent typing. I think it may momentarily be an hourglass first.
It's sometimes caused by playing a .WAV file for a bell,
and sometimes happens for no apparent reason. This doesn't appear to
be visible to the usual PuTTY show/hide pointer mechanisms
(show_mouseptr()), so isn't fixed by the above change.)
Audit trail for this bug.