Kbase 16583: Blink Color Attribute in Character Mode Applications
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
5/10/1998 |
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Blink Color Attribute in Character Mode Applications
Due to the fact that Microsoft no longer supports blinking characters
in character mode (i.e. console mode) applications, the use of the
BLINK attribute in the Progress 4GL is translated by the underlying
Microsoft operating system into a 'BRIGHT' attribute instead.
The details of this change are as follows:
If you specify a 'foreground' color of BLINK-RED, it applies the
BRIGHT attribute to the 'background' color.
For example:
DISPLAY "hello" WITH COLOR 'BLINK-RED/BLUE'.
would give you red text on a bright blue background.
We lose the ability to have blinking colors, but we gain the ability
to have high-intensity background colors.
The BLINK attribute is not supported in any GUI version of Progress,
as it is not supported by Windows.
Progress Software Technical Support Note # 16583