[Tutor] Re: Blinking Characters

[Daniel Ehrenberg]

--- Shantanoo Mahajan <python at dhumketu.cjb.net> wrote:
>   +-- Alan Gauld [25-10-03 21:51 IST]:
>   | > Is it possible to have blinking character in
> window's DOS prompt? In
>   | > C/C++ it is called as text attributes, and you
> can change the
>   | > foreground and background colors also along
> with the blinking
>   | > property of the character.
>   | 
>   | Sure the DOS box is a standard ANSI terminal
> (once you load 
>   | ANSI.SYS).
>   | 
>   | As a result it responds to all the ANSI comand
> sequences, 
>   | thus just print the commands for blinking
> characters to 
>   | stdout and it will respond, same goes for
> colours, 
>   | character sizes etc.
>   | 
>   | Try searching the web for "ANSI terminal" and
> you should find 
>   | what you need, you can test them in a DOS box
> using the 
>   | DOS "ECHO" command. It used to be common
> practice pre windows 
>   | to customise your DOS prompt using fancy ANSI
> sequences.
>   | 
>   | Alan G.
>   | 
>   | PS. I found this site:
>   | 
>   | http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm
> 
> I want to have the blininkg/bold msgs. to be printed
> through python.
> Errors/Warning in *blinking*. In FreeBSD, I tried,
> curses module and
> it worked perfectly. But don't know anything on
> windows. :-( 
> 
> -- 
> With Best Regards,
> Shantanoo Mahajan

It looks like Windows doesn't have the curses module,
or atleast 2.3.2-1 doesn't.
Daniel Ehrenberg

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