Blinking Alarms

Instead of using blinking alarms, use a color-by alarm or color-by value strategy to indicate alarm status. Blinking is a very time-intensive operation because the blinking object and the surrounding objects need to be redrawn each time the picture is refreshed at the specified picture refresh rate, even though the information in the object has not changed. For more information on employing a color-by alarm strategy, refer to the Implementing Alarms and Messages manual.