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from: JORJ STRUMOLO
date: 1997-07-18 18:45:00
subject: blink/bright

From: jorj.strumolo@chowda.com (Jorj Strumolo)
    Chris Antos  writes:
CA> the actual nitty gritties of how to do it are complicated.  but you can
  > download BRIGHT.ZIP from ftp.semware.com, this contains a .bin file
  > which will do the trick (only with TSE 2.5 and lower, of course).
 It's not there.  The list goes from BOXIT11.ZIP to BROWSE13.ZIP
 (tho 2.2 is the latest on that).  No BRIGHT.  No "bright" in any
 of the descriptions, either.  I found what I think you were
 talking about, a Bright() proc in a COLORS.S (and COLORS.BIN,
 etc) macro under the name INTENSE2.ZIP from July 1993 by Peter
 Birch.  It also contains an OverScan() proc which does the same
 thing as a VidBorder() one GDB wrote using newer internal commands.
 In any case, I folded it into my UI, and did Bright(On) and
 Bright(Off) off the bat.  Toggling took a bit more work, but
 I came up with something that seems sensible.  Given:
integer blink_bright        // after others, near the start of TSE.UI
    Bright(False)           // near the end of WhenLoaded()
proc jBlinkBright()         // near the start of TSE.UI
    if blink_bright==0
       Bright(1) blink_bright=1
  else Bright(0) blink_bright=0
 endif
end
 At first I didn't remember to reset the integer.  But now I can do:
         Bright(0)
         Bright(1)
        jBlinkBright()    // toggles
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