Re: ansi music idea...
By: MRoblivious1bmf to Deuce on Sat Jan 26 2008 11:59 am
Also: What do you think of having an iCE color mode, makes blink behave t same as bright, but for the background color.
Honestly? I think that making "Blink" mean "High intensity background" is pretty silly.
I think it's prety silly too. unfortunately you are mistaken about that.
What the hell? Trust me, I do indeed think that making blink mean high intensity background is pretty silly. There is no way that I am mistaken on that point.
they set a screenmode so the ansi characters were not blinking, and were able to use different background colors.
That's not ANSI. The ANSI characers are parsed and the specific sequences we are talking about is ESC5m and ESC6m which tell the terminate to cause text to blinck slowly (less than 150 per minute) and blink quickly (more than 150 per minute) respectively.
This is part of a great number of standards, including the ANSI one. If someone were to use CCITT reccomendation T.416 to make ESC48m perform that function, it would be fine... or adding some private use code to do so would also be fine.
Otherwise, you're clearly telling the remote terminal to cause text to blink but with the assumption that it will not blink. This is from the same class of stupid as using ESC[M for "ANSI" music - idiots making broken "extensions" by abusing existing well defined sequences.
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