Re: XForms: Blinking Fields

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Tue, 5 Jan 99 14:09:24 PST

# To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> Is it possible, in any fashion, to define a blinking field in
> XFORMS? By that I mean a blinking object label, a blinking browser
> line, or blinking data in an input field?

My ghod, I hope not.

Actually, I've done it (not that I'm particularly proud of it) by the
simple expedient using a timeout callback. I just set and unset the
label alternatively on each timeout.

There's not intrinsic function in Xlib or in XForms to do it.

spl
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