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From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  how to make a line of text blink?
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.220559.3159@research.canon.oz.au>
Date: 23 Jan 91 22:05:59 GMT
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In article <5435@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>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.
>
>Even on boring old monochrome "color"map-less machines like mine?
>
>Remember, folks, not everybody in the universe has a color display on
>their desk - and not everybody is hot to get one (I had a color display
>on my desk for over a year; its main effect was to annoy me whenever it
>started displaying menu cursors in red - I never actually *used* the
>colors for anything except to run a worm-generator as a screen lock).

And even colour displays don't all have colour maps. A 24 bit
colour server probably wouldn't do it either.

-- 
Andrew Newman, Software Engineer.            | Net:   andy@research.canon.oz.au
Canon Information Systems Research Australia | Phone: +61 2 805 2914
P.O. Box 313 North Ryde, NSW, Australia 2113 | Fax:   +61 2 805 2929