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From: beard@ux1.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Blinking Apple
Message-ID: <629@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 5 Aug 88 20:56:52 GMT
References: <806@trwspf.TRW.COM> <1555@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
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In article <1555@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
>
>photo@trwspf.UUCP (Brian Girvin) writes:
>[re a blinking apple in the menu bar:]
>>I can't stand the stupid blinking.  How do I STOP it? [with the Alarm Clock]
>
>Now for a harder one. How do you stop the insertion-point cursor in a word
>processor (I use WriteNow, but they all do it) from blinking? Ideally, how
>do you stop it but leave yourself the option to reactivate it while the
>program is running... or am I fantasizing?
>

One way to kill all blinking would be to patch the trap which leads to
TEIdle.  TEIdle is the call which causes blinking.  Another might be
to go inside WriteNow and stub (place NOP's) in the place of the calls
to TEIdle.  

Just a thought.  It might work if he is using TextEdit for some of the
code.

Patrick Beard
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
beard@ux1.lbl.gov