Carat blinking

[dewyatt]

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).

[Liberator]

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.

[dewyatt]

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

[Jamarr]

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.

[dewyatt]

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

[CrazyEddie]

Thanks