Re: hard drive indicator lights in menu bar

[90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T)]

In article <20agn0$ud@altitude.HIP.CAM.ORG>, Phillip Vandry writes...
> 
> That could really be hell. Your letters will get trashed all the time.
> Don't forget that writing to the screen is writing. It could scroll your
> letters off, overwrite them... The letters will always be displayed!
> (Somebody is always reading or writing!).

    You can write directly to video RAM after making a note of what was
underneath.  If you don't like that idea, you can always blink the
border (or maybe a strip of the border) instead.  That shouldn't muck
anything up, assuming again that you restore the border colour.
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