Version 3 Technical Highlights - Highlight

A slightly confusingly named function that takes a passed escape sequence and an on/off flag and returns the blinking/non-blinking version of the escape sequence accordingly. It can thus be used to "unblink" a blinking escape sequence to ensure easier to read display or to "blink" an unblinking escape sequence. To illustrate usage try the small code fragment below:

Declare Function HighLight
Equ Off$ To 0
Equ On$  To 1
NonBlink = \1B\ : "C1N"
Blink    = \1B\ : "C9N"
Print NonBlink : "NonBlink Normal"
Print Blink : "Blink Normal"
Print Highlight(NonBlink, Off$) : "NonBlink Off"
Print Highlight(NonBlink, On$)  : "NonBlink On"
Print Highlight(Blink, Off$) : "Blink Off"
Print Highlight(Blink, On$) : "Blink On"
Call Input.Char(X)

(Volume 4, Issue 6, Page 8)