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From: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU
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Subject: Re:  how to make a line of text blink?
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Date: 21 Jan 91 06:30:31 GMT
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> Does anybody know of a easy way to draw a line of text and make it
> blink, using XLIB?

Probably not.

> I have been looking through my XLIB manual and couldn't find a good
> way to do this seems-so-easy thing.  The only way I can think of is
> to just draw it repeatedly from my application, any better solution?

I don't think there is any, in general.  (Some extensions, like the
Display PostScript extension, may be able to do this.  You also might
be able to persuade the Multi-Buffering extension to do this somehow.
But I don't think it's possible within the core protocol.)  I do know
that when I wrote mterm, I wound up doing blinking the hard way - by
repeatedly redrawing the object that's supposed to blink.

					der Mouse

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