title: How do I make characters in C using the ncurses.h library "blink"
body: <p>Before I make one of these posts, I look around at around 5-10 other forums to see if my question has been answered. </p>
  
  <p>There are a lot of websites that explain that my compiler doesn't have blinking enabled, and that I just need to download the package to enable it, or something to that affect</p>
  
  <p>However, of all the ones that I have seen, none of them go into detail about where and how to acquire the package I need to allow blinking, or if they do then it isn't with my compiler.</p>
  
  <p>So if someone could assist me, how do I enable blinking on Ubuntu with a function such as </p>
  
  <pre><code>attron(A_BLINK);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm aware that similarly phrased questions will get down-votes. I do not care, I just want to know how to fix my problem. </p>
  
  <p>Any feedback would be really appreciated</p>
  
  <p>-Edit</p>
  
  <pre><code>#include &lt;string.h&gt;
  #include &lt;ncurses.h&gt;
  
  int main(void)
  {
    char text[] = "Please Blink";
    size_t len = strlen(text);
    int i, row, col;
    initscr();
    getmaxyx(stdscr, row,col);
    keypad(stdscr, TRUE);
    noecho();
    curs_set(0);
  
    move((row / 2), (col / 2) - (len / 2));
  
    attron(A_BLINK);
    for(i = 0; i &lt; len; ++i)
    {
      printw("%c", text[i]);
    }
  
    refresh();
    getch();
  
    attroff(A_BLINK);
  
    endwin();
  
    return 0;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>-Ryan</p>