You have to *move* the mouse for the cursor to update. This was the case before 0.48 and there is really no way for it to happen with Tk that I've found.

On Dec 8, 2017, at 8:47 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

From: Martin Hiendl <martin@martinhiendl.com>
To: Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PD] Scroll bar behaviour
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…also sometimes the mouse pointer doesn't update when switching into
Edit Mode (even after moving the mouse), but I can't seem to find an
exact way to reproduce it. This hasn't been that way in 0.47

best
Martin

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