Ah, well, that would certainly blow that idea outta the water. :)
Scott
>AFAIK, Windows doesn't support blinking text natively.
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>>My point was simply that when you set a color attribute, the operating system controls the interface to the video card, which then maintains that color or other attribute. In this event, VFP is not cycling to maintain a given appearance; the only cycling taking place is low-level clock cycles, and those I'm not worrying about eating up. It's only explicitly cycling (via a timer or other method) that I'm concerned about.
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>>Just one of those nice old tricks from a simpler environment that would be helpful to still have around... :)
Scott D. Grabo
Chief Information Officer
Occupational Health Group
First Advantage Corporation