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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 04 February 2005]

Hello,
Im inquiring as to if there is any way to blink a character in windows, i know the blink property of display does not work in windows, so im curious if there is another way of doing it.

I thought of running a thread and having the string disapear reapear, repeatedly, or changing the background color of the text so it stands out.

We have alot of unix customers that have moved into windows
and requested this, so figured id double check and see if there is
any solutions.


Thanks, Rob

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 04 February 2005]

Hello,
Im inquiring as to if there is any way to blink a character in windows, i know the blink property of display does not work in windows, so im curious if there is another way of doing it.

I thought of running a thread and having the string disapear reapear, repeatedly, or changing the background color of the text so it stands out.

We have alot of unix customers that have moved into windows
and requested this, so figured id double check and see if there is
any solutions.


Thanks, Rob
I've seen VB examples using the timer control which is similiar to your idea of using a thread.
There is a FlashWindow windows api function, but it only flashes a window not a control.

Example:

DISPLAY STANDARD GRAPHICAL WINDOW
       LINES 20, SIZE 65
       TITLE-BAR, SYSTEM MENU, AUTO-RESIZE
       TITLE "Flash Me"
       BACKGROUND-LOW
       HANDLE MAIN-WINDOW
SET ENVIRONMENT "CODE-PREFIX" TO "."
SET ENVIRONMENT "DLL-CONVENTION" TO 1
CALL "user32.dll"
MOVE 1 TO bInvert
INQUIRE MAIN-WINDOW SYSTEM HANDLE IN ctlhwnd
CALL "FlashWindow" USING
       By Value ctlhwnd |As Long
       By Value bInvert |As Long
       GIVING RETURN-CODE |As Long
.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 04 February 2005]

Hello,
Im inquiring as to if there is any way to blink a character in windows, i know the blink property of display does not work in windows, so im curious if there is another way of doing it.

I thought of running a thread and having the string disapear reapear, repeatedly, or changing the background color of the text so it stands out.

We have alot of unix customers that have moved into windows
and requested this, so figured id double check and see if there is
any solutions.


Thanks, Rob
I've seen VB examples using the timer control which is similiar to your idea of using a thread.
There is a FlashWindow windows api function, but it only flashes a window not a control.

Example:

DISPLAY STANDARD GRAPHICAL WINDOW
       LINES 20, SIZE 65
       TITLE-BAR, SYSTEM MENU, AUTO-RESIZE
       TITLE "Flash Me"
       BACKGROUND-LOW
       HANDLE MAIN-WINDOW
SET ENVIRONMENT "CODE-PREFIX" TO "."
SET ENVIRONMENT "DLL-CONVENTION" TO 1
CALL "user32.dll"
MOVE 1 TO bInvert
INQUIRE MAIN-WINDOW SYSTEM HANDLE IN ctlhwnd
CALL "FlashWindow" USING
       By Value ctlhwnd |As Long
       By Value bInvert |As Long
       GIVING RETURN-CODE |As Long
.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 04 February 2005]

Hello,
Im inquiring as to if there is any way to blink a character in windows, i know the blink property of display does not work in windows, so im curious if there is another way of doing it.

I thought of running a thread and having the string disapear reapear, repeatedly, or changing the background color of the text so it stands out.

We have alot of unix customers that have moved into windows
and requested this, so figured id double check and see if there is
any solutions.


Thanks, Rob
Do you know what character you want to flash ahead of time? If so, you can create a bitmap and use animation, similar the the GT Bitmap displayed in the Tour.acu sample. You can find the sample in C:\\Acucorp\\Acucbl620\\Acugt\\Sample\\Samplprj\\Object (assuming that you have installed in the default location and are using 6.2.0).

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 04 February 2005]

Hello,
Im inquiring as to if there is any way to blink a character in windows, i know the blink property of display does not work in windows, so im curious if there is another way of doing it.

I thought of running a thread and having the string disapear reapear, repeatedly, or changing the background color of the text so it stands out.

We have alot of unix customers that have moved into windows
and requested this, so figured id double check and see if there is
any solutions.


Thanks, Rob
Thank You for both of your ideas, i think the animated bitmap might be the way to go.
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