Some senseless babbling from Craig Morrison to Mike Ruskai
on 09-21-94  14:22 about VIO on PM...

 CM> Mike Ruskai doth sayeth in a message unto All:
 
 MR> A VIO window in the PM has lousy ANSI.  So, is there
 MR> something that will  provide a correct pallette and support
 MR> blinking characters for a PM comm  application?  I am trying
 MR> to give something to Markus Schmidt other than  "stop using
 MR> VIO", so he can get proper ANSI in ZOC.  Anybody that can
 MR> give  me the name of an API?

 CM> There is no API in OS/2 that is going to give Markus the ability to
 CM> have blinking characters for ANSI emulation. The only way he is going
 CM> to get it is to write his own code that simulates blinking by using a
 CM> timer and altering the displayed colors himself (can you say slow?)
 CM> You've got to remember when you are working in PM you are not working
 CM> with a standard text mode screen, the video adaptor is in graphics
 CM> mode. 

Well that certainly sucks.  I guess for that to be speedy at all one would 
have to use DIVE, which would require considerably more coding.  

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