Re: blink <-> highlight background

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:26:14AM +0100, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
> On 6 Nov 2001, Matthias Leonhardt wrote:
> 
> > Hello ncurses-developers,
> >
> > I have a problem with highlighting backgrounds in my application. I set
> > the A_BLINK bit to get the highlighted backgrounds enabled. But the text
> > with set A_BLINK-bit at the background is shown in 3 different modi:
> >
> > - highlighted as needed  (in Eterm) -> ok
> > - normal without highlight or blink (in Xterm) -> ok, but not nice
> > - blinking (in linux-console) -> not ok
> 
> (OT) That's a property of VGA cards, not related to curses. If you
> use SVGATextMode, the `option "16color"' will switch the behaviour
> on the Linux console. Don't know about xterm -- maybe it has some
> option, maybe it just doesn't support it (but you have the sources,
> so you can change it :-).

man xterm

       colorBLMode (class ColorMode)
               Specifies   whether   characters  with  the  blink
               attribute should be displayed in color.  Note that
               setting  ``colorMode''  off  disables  all colors,
               including this.

       colorBL (class Foreground)
               This  specifies  the color to use to display blink
               characters  if  the  ``colorBLMode''  resource  is
               enabled.


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