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From: ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Can X windows flash?
Message-ID: <100920214@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 9 May 90 18:30:16 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> 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.

This works ok.

> 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.

I think that the main drawback is that the rate of flash is not
constant.  Hardware blinks at a rock solid rate.  Software driven
blinking will depend on when the request actually gets serviced.  On
busy machines it gets really annoying.

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