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Main Board => Discussions => Programming => Topic started by: Ned L on November 19, 2019, 12:37:35 PM

Title: How to disable blink?
Post by: Ned L on November 19, 2019, 12:37:35 PM

My application, written in PxPlus (not Nomads) occasionally uses 'BB' and 'EB' to highlight various fields.
Many, many years ago we set 'BB' to appear in red using
   1116 VIDEO_PALETTE INDEXED READ TEMP$
   1118 LET TEMP$(17,8)=$0101010101010101$; REM " 'BB' = Red
   1120 VIDEO_PALETTE INDEXED TEMP$; REM "Save change
so these fields both blinked and appeared with red text.

I have a client who likes the red, but doesn't want the text to blink.
Is there a method to globally turn off the blink, without affecting the color?
I've tried
MNEMONIC 'BB'=""
and
MNEMONIC 'BB'=$00$
but those aren't accepted.

I've tried
?'OPTION'("BlinkTime",0)
but that seems to make the text disappear completely.

Maybe this is a matter of modifying the terminal driver in *dev
But, frankly, I'm not sure which terminal driver I'm using.
I'm starting PxPlus with
  "\\spsrds\c$\PVX Plus Technologies\PxPlus 2019 Upd 1\pxplus.exe" -NR -SZ=8000  m:\_QAP\CP\OP4MZA"
running on a Windows server.  What determines which terminal emulation setup routine is used?  If I knew that, would it just be a matter of REM'ing out the
MNEMONIC 'BB'=
statement?

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.

Title: Re: How to disable blink?
Post by: Mike King on November 20, 2019, 10:15:49 AM

There is no way to disable the blinking.

We would suggest you try perhaps replacing all ‘BB’ with ‘BR’ and ‘EB’ with ‘ER’ which will do a reverse video — or perhaps to ‘RED’ and ‘RM’ respectively.

The bulk edit utility should be able to do this quickly for you.

Title: Re: How to disable blink?
Post by: Ned L on November 21, 2019, 05:48:10 PM

Thanks, Mike!
(No wonder I couldn't figure out how to do it!)