This is a known issue with Tk's Text widget, which IDLE uses. You could force it to be black/white.Īlso you should hide this option in selector - it's misleading, because I thought i does something.ĪFAIK you can - you simply have to restart IDLE after changing the color and saving the changes. As I understand, the caret color is either black or background color.
The page on the link says you can invert it.
So something might be improved here, but I doubt you can reliably set the caret color on Windows see IDLE on Windows appears to be using an always-black caret (cursor) - not the standard caret behavior, which does its 'blinking' by inverting the background color.
When I change the cursor color to another color, it still stays black, so I can't really make black background. Created on 19:14 by zorkin, last changed 14:56 by admin.
