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From: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  how to make a line of text blink?
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.095922@mccall.com>
Date: 22 Jan 91 15:59:22 GMT
References: <9101210630.AA10609@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> <301@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US>
Reply-To: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA
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In article <301@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US>, wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren
Tucker) writes:
>> 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.

It also doesn't work so good on monochrome (static gray) systems.
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