Blinking effect in dialog in linux

ravidangaych · 06-18-2009, 03:51 AM

hi
how we can have blinking effect in dialog in linux

bhaslinux · 06-18-2009, 08:05 AM

do you mean have a terminal with a blinking cursor ? use gnome-terminal and enable blinking cursor in the the profiles.

knudfl · 06-18-2009, 08:41 AM

Google .. Blinking effect in dialog in linux ..
ex.1) http://freeos.com/guides/lsst/misc.htm
From section " Linux Console (Screen) "

Code:

echo -e "\033[5m Flash!  \033[0m"

ex.2) http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/li...features/lsst/
Dialog : please see Chapter 4
User Interface and dialog utility-Part I
User Interface and dialog utility-Part II
Message Box (msgbox) using dialog utility
Confirmation Box (yesno box) using dialog utility
Input (inputbox) using dialog utility
User Interface using dialog Utility - Putting it all together
.....

ravidangaych · 06-19-2009, 04:02 AM

i want to blink a line or word in dialog box

bhaslinux · 06-19-2009, 04:47 AM

you must use ASCII escape sequence to do this
echo -en "This is normal and \033[05;37;5m this is blinking \033[0m "

ravidangaych · 06-19-2009, 05:10 AM

dialog --msgbox "`echo -en "This is normal and \033[05;37;5m this is blinking \033[0m "`" 10 30

not working (blinking)

knudfl · 06-19-2009, 06:01 AM

Both

echo -en "This is normal and \033[05;37;5m this is blinking \033[0m "

and

echo -e "\033[5m Flash! \033[0m"

are blinking here !
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speck · 06-20-2009, 12:29 AM

I've used Dialog quite a bit, but I've never seen an option for blinking text. Looking at the man page and the most recent ChangeLog, I don't see any reference to a blink option.

If you must have blinking text, you could create the dialog box using your language of choice (Perl, C++, etc) and the ncurses library.