Ahh..thanks..yeah, I have a good reason...for alarming notification only.
Bubba sometimes needs a little blinking to figure out what is wrong with the
system.
Thanks..just wanted to exhaust every avenue before adding a blinking routine
in.
Jim
Richard Burmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:53997@palm-dev-forum...
>
> > From: Jim Garozzo
> >
> > Is it possible to make anything blink writing code on a Palm? I mean
> > without creating a timer and turning on the label/button/etc and then
off
> > controlling the blinking manually?
> >
>
> You want to write code to make text blink without using a timer? Unless
the
> hardware can be programmed for blinking text (writing to the hardware is
not
> recommended) then there is no way.
>
> OTOH, it is not hard to time program activity -- look at the EventLoop in
> the source code for the Palm games to see how.
>
> I hope you have a good reason to annoy your users with blinking text!
>
>
>
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