Disable blinking cursor in Leopard

I would like to disable the blinking cursor that appears in the currently selected mac text field.
Can this be done in MacOSX?
to do this is vista is easy:
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsvista/blink.aspx
The reason I need this is because I write scripts to test our software. These scripts sometimes take screenshots and compare with previous screenshots. Sometimes these test scripts fail because of the blinking cursor.
One work around I can use is typing some text in the textbox where the cursor is blinking, the pressing shift + <back arrow> to highlight that text. I don't really like this work around and I'd rather just disable it across the OS.
Can this be done?
Thanks,
Ben

xexers wrote:
Hi Nerowolfe,
Please see my response above.
It did fix the issue for some apps like Safari which is great! Clicking on the address bar and search bar in Safari now has a solid cursor. Awesome!
However even in safari, when I go to google, and click in the search field I get a regular blinking cursor.
Any advice?
Did you use the textedit-specific command?
From the original post:
"NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriod" is likely something that should be set on an application specific basis. If you are familiar with the 'defaults' command, you can specify the "domain" to write to (basically the name of the app's "plist" file, minus the ".plist" suffix). As an example, for "TextEdit.app", quit it if it is running, then try entering this in "Terminal.app":defaults write com.apple.textedit NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriod -int 1
http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-63718.html
It's possible that some apps or online services ignore or can override this change.
Message was edited by: nerowolfe

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Short description of the problems:
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Owenson
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Boot Camp: Early 2011 MacBook Pro boots to black screen with blinking cursor after windows 7 installation.

I bought and downloaded the windows 7 ultimate edition 64 bit iso, then proceeded to perform a correct burn to a DVD one at the slowest speed and one at the fastest. all went well. so I open Boot Camp assistant and follow the instructions to the letter, downloaded the driver support to the flash drive. partitioned my drive with more than enough room 150 gb. its starts its install. I get through everything seamlessly where I put in my info all with the exception of my activation code. yet it still continues to finalize the install and does another restart. boots back up to either A. black screen saying press any key to boot to my install disk. B. if I take it out just a white curser. also I read it may be because I had the flash drive in while I was trying to boot so I removed it as well, same result. any input would be much appreciated.

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