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FSXA flashing text

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Bliksimpie

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I want to use some text in a gauge but it need to FLASH on/off

here is my text section
Code: 
<Element>
  <Position X="239" Y="201"/>
  <Text X="30" Y="11" Length="4" Font="Arial" FontSize="10" Adjust="Center" VerticalAdjust="Bottom" Multiline="No" Color="0xF0D0D0" BackgroundColor="#080808" Bright="Yes">
     <String>WARNING</String>
  </Text>
</Element>

What should be added to make this text flashing ?

any ideas.
much appreciates
 
Bliksimpie said:
I want to use some text in a gauge but it need to FLASH on/off

here is my text section
Code: 
<Element>
  <Position X="239" Y="201"/>
  <Text X="30" Y="11" Length="4" Font="Arial" FontSize="10" Adjust="Center" VerticalAdjust="Bottom" Multiline="No" Color="0xF0D0D0" BackgroundColor="#080808" Bright="Yes">
     <String>WARNING</String>
  </Text>
</Element>

What should be added to make this text flashing ?

any ideas.
much appreciates
Click to expand...

There are many ways to make text blink on and off from escape codes to simple timers. You might start here:

http://fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=196527&highlight=blinking

but also search for "blink" or "flash" and you will find a lot. This particular question has been raised many times so the search will have a lot of hits. There's also a couple of wikis in FSDeveloper Gauges section that I suggest you check out - Escape Sequences and Timer

Bob
 
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thank you and be sure I did use the search function but must have used wrong syntax because I got 5 items at the most and of that 4 was scenery related.

Maybe age is getting to me.. LOL..!

using
<Visible>(P:Absolute time,seconds) 0.5 % 0.25 1 * > !</Visible>

working great..

now to get the timing right..!!
 
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