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From: tiwary@nwnexus.WA.COM (Ashutosh Tiwary)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Can X windows flash?
Message-ID: <310@nwnexus.WA.COM>
Date: 8 May 90 21:07:16 GMT
References: <9005021529.AA04050@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Reply-To: tiwary@nwnexus.UUCP (Ashutosh Tiwary)
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.; Seattle, WA
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In article <9005021529.AA04050@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse) writes:
>> 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?
>
One thing that I have seen done is to have a process running in the background
which causes blinking by replacing the color in a given color table entry with
another to create the illusion of flashing. The main draw back of this idea is
that now all the places where the given color table entry is used, the content
will flash. The way around that is to allocate say red and "blinking-red".
This also is quite wasteful of the color map.

Hope this helps.

- Ashutosh Tiwary
tiwary@nwnexus.wa.com