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- From: beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (R. Beyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: blinkcolor always black
- Message-ID: <31533@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 02:24:46 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
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- Hi,
-
- running Personal Iris (4D25), Personal Iris Turbo (4D35TG) and Indigo/
- Entry and IRIX 4.0.1 I have noticed that the blink color always remains
- black.
-
- The effect can be shown by SGI's "blinker" demo in /usr/people/4Dgifts/
- examples/glpg/ch04/blinker which is intended to blink an initially white
- bar to red. However, white is blinked to black.
-
- To get this demo running properly, insert "gflush();" after the mapcolor
- instruction.
-
- Although the man page says "blink is not supported on Iris Indigo" this
- demo blinks on the machines mentioned above equally well and on all
- machines with the blink color being black irrespective to what color it
- is set.
-
- I would be very grateful for any workarounds or hints. We need the blink
- feature to run our 3.3.2 programs.
-
- Regards
-
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- Ralf Beyer - German Aerospace Research Establishment, Institute for
- Flight Guidance, Flughafen, D-3300 Braunschweig, Fed. Rep. of Germany
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