Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aristotle!pjs From: pjs@aristotle.JPL.NASA.gov (Peter Scott) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Another tiny R5 wish Message-ID: <1990Jul31.162229.4254@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 31 Jul 90 16:22:29 GMT References: <421@bohra.cpg.oz> <1990Jul30.220835.16776@eng.umd.edu> Sender: news@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Usenet) Reply-To: pjs@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov Followup-To: comp.windows.x Distribution: comp Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov In article <421@bohra.cpg.oz> ejp@bohra.cpg.oz (Esmond Pitt) writes: >I'd like to see something which allows Motif to tell the server to >flash the cursor without having to do it all itself. Presently Motif >has to add a timeout handler, receive the timeout event, despatch the >event, determine the current cursor state, XOR the cursor state, add >the timeout again, all to flash the cursor. I do agree with this, although I think it should be part of R5, not Motif. Obviously it is not so "tiny", since we are talking about adding a blink attribute to the graphics context, and then of course we have to define the blink mode (XOR, opaque, etc), what the "blink off" color/pixmap is, etc, etc... but it would eliminate those embarrassing moments in the middle of demonstrating the new super-duper windowing systems to engineers whom we want to switch to workstations/X terminals when one of them asks, "How come the cursor doesn't blink like it does on my VT100? You can make blinking text with all this advanced stuff, can't you?" This is news. This is your | Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech brain on news. Any questions? | (pjs@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov)