Re: blink <-> highlight background

[Thomas E. Dickey]

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
>
> It would be great, if I could get the last two modi running like the
> first.
> Is there an ESC-Sequence or better: an ncurses-function which switches
> this behavior?

no (what you are asking for depends on the terminal emulator)

-- 
T.E.Dickey <address@hidden>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net