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This has been asked before, but there was no answer.
Is it possible to make the carat of an editbox blink?
If this can't be done right now, I know it wouldn't be hard to add it (since CEGUI receives time pulses).

This would require more dynamic rendering instead of the cached frames CEGUI uses. This could be implemented by using a second render pass to render the dynamic elements as I posted before somewhere on this forum.

Aw, more work than I thought.
I'll probably just live without it.

This should probably be added as a feature request in mantis, as a blinking cursor is pratically always desired for an editbox.

I'm not sure when the EventRenderingStarted event is fired, nor do I know how/if the cursor rendering is cached, but if that event is fired per frame and the cursor rendering is cached separate from the editbox, you could probably just add an elapsed_time member/property to the object and inside the event handler change the visibility state of the cursor every half second or so.

Finally added to mantis:
http://cegui.org.uk/mantis/view.php?id=227

Thanks