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>Why not just use blinking colors? There's an interrupt (not available in
>Q-Basic, of course, but it defaults to blinking, anyway) that will
>toggle between hi-intensity background colors and regular, but blinking
>background colors.
>>>>>HI!
>>>>> Is there a simple way to make text blink it Qbasic? Kinda like the HTML
>>>>>command "<blink>"? THANKS!
>>>>Here you go:
>>>>CLS
>>>>COLOR 23, 0
>>>> PRINT "This text will blink"
>>>>COLOR 31, 0
>>>> PRINT "This text will Blink in High Intensity White"
>>>>END
>>>Unfortunately this requires the user to be in ansi mode if the program is
>>>being used for something like a bulletin board. The other disadvantage is
>>>the speed of the blink.
>>>So another solution is to embed a blank line into a loop that prints out t
>>>text.
>>>The main reason I did this with my programs was that it allow text to blin
>>>when the user is calling a non-blinking protocal such as Ripscript.
>>>Perry
True Ripscript doesn't support blinking colors, if the blink relies on ansi
color codes. Remember the purpose of Ripscript is to transmit over a modem.
With one minor exception it only supports the 0-127 byte ascii standard.
Whatever method used has to follow the conventions allowed within Ripscript.
When using the normal blinking colors the system would have to have the
ability of doing redirection to the comport without interpreting blinking
characters as ansi. This leaves you only a couple of choices, either
blinking the character or blink the line by sending a blank character or
line to the selected spot within the Rip text viewport.
Perry
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