Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!emory!kd4nc!n4hgf!wht
From: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  how to make a line of text blink?
Message-ID: <301@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US>
Date: 21 Jan 91 18:53:16 GMT
References: <9101210630.AA10609@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Reply-To: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Organization: Amateur Radio Station N4HGF
Lines: 13

> Does anybody know of a easy way to draw a line of text and make it
> blink, using XLIB?

One hack to to allocate a private color cell and use it to
write material to be blinked. Then use an application timeout
to alternate the contents of the cell between black and, say,
red. This is a hack, but it works.  The scheduling irregularity
of timeouts gives you irregular blinking, though.
 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Warren Tucker, March Hare   gatech!n4hgf!wht or wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US
When bad men combine, the good must associate;  else they will fall one
by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. -Edmund Burke