Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU!mouse
From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Can X windows flash?
Message-ID: <9005021529.AA04050@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 2 May 90 15:29:43 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 19

> Looking through the X windows documentation I can see nothing about
> how to make pixels or characters flash.  Is this not possible on an X
> window server?

The core protocol does not provide any direct support for this, as far
as I can tell.  It would, of course, be possible for a server to define
extra semantics for, say, an extra bitplane, to be a blink-enable plane
or some such.  (Wouldn't it?  I see nothing wrong with it, but what do
I know...)

I also did a terminal emulator that supported flashing text; the client
simply drew the text in the two ways alternately.  Not especially
clean, perhaps, and it wouldn't work too well over a slow connection,
but for the desired application it worked fine.

					der Mouse

			old: mcgill-vision!mouse
			new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu