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Why doesn the blink attribute work in color text mode in Windows 2000?

April 26, 2017blink color mode text Windows

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Why doesn the blink attribute work in color text mode in Windows 2000?

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As you’ve noticed, when the highest bit of the color attribute is set, the background color becomes brighter (or brown becomes yellow). You can get the blink attribute to work if you run your program in a Command Window and then press Alt-Enter to switch to full-screen mode while the program is running. On the other hand, if you switch to full-screen mode first and then run your program, the blink attribute doesn’t work–the highest bit simply brightens the background color.