tep@suntan.west.sun.com (Tom Perrine) (12/06/89)
I have a user that wants the block (input cursor) to blink in a shelltool,
"just like on my real terminal". Of course, they mean the solid block that
you see in the input-focused (active) window.
(I find this to a dubious feature, myself, but, Hey, its not my
environment, who am I to impose anything on anyone else.)
I can't find anything in any of the docs I have looked in, so obviously I
looked in the wrong place :-)
Does anyone know how to make the block blink?
Thanks,
Tom Perrine (tep)
Logicon (Tactical and Training Systems Division) San Diego CA (619) 455-1330
Internet: tots!tep@LOGICON.ARPA GENIE: T.PERRINE
UUCP:{nosc,ucsd}!snoopy!tots!tep -or- nosc!hamachi!tots!teprogers@wlf.isi.edu (Craig Milo Rogers) (12/21/89)
In article <3784@brazos.Rice.edu> tots!heinlein!tep@suntan.west.sun.com (Tom Perrine) writes: >X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 217, message 7 of 23 >I have a user that wants the block (input cursor) to blink in a shelltool, >"just like on my real terminal". Of course, they mean the solid block that >you see in the input-focused (active) window. >(I find this to a dubious feature, myself, but, Hey, its not my >environment, who am I to impose anything on anyone else.) >I can't find anything in any of the docs I have looked in, so obviously I >looked in the wrong place :-) >Does anyone know how to make the block blink? I ran into this problem in 1987 when I started using the Oracle database. The Oracle screen interface product, SQL*Forms, was designed with a standard VT100 or better terminal in mind. It is difficult to use this program with the usual Sunview highlighting and cursor options. Our solution was to modify Suntools and implement a blinking text cursor option for tty subwindows. As is usual with most modularized software systems, the changes are spread across several modules. There also appears to be a minor error in or exposed by these changes, as there are times when the blinking cursor doesn't start blinking when the window is selected. These changes apply to SunOS version 3.5. If you are interested, please send me email.