Blinking text not working on Linux terminal apps.

[Greg Field]

Open/ed screen mode uses blink to highlight the active option in screen widgets.

For example there may be a pop-up window with a question requiring a yes/no answer.

Or it may be a pick list of choices. The current active choice is highlighted by blinking.  

Linux terminal apps (and I have tried them all) don't appear to support blink.

(I think xterm is the only one).

This means that Open/ed screen mode will be confusing to use. All highligthing 

of the active option will be in standard text like the other choices.

The workaround is a config file called .curwin.conf that goes in your $HOME

directory. There is a sample one in the sample sub-directory under the OpenEd

install base directory. it looks like this.

#   $HOME/.curwin.conf  : local temporary curwinlib changes.
#
    if   $PLATFORM   is   $LNX
        blink_bold  on


    return

If you put this in your $HOME directory as (dot) .curwin.conf, then Open/ed

will use bold for every time it goes to use blink. And it will all make more sense.

If you get a terminal app that blinks, remember to remove this, or at least 

comment out the two lines "if" and "blink_bold" with the hash symbol.

-G