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Blinking DOS Cursor with expression & text animator?

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Trying to think of a way to having a leading blinking cursor with text animators (a la old school DOS computers)

 

Got pretty close by using Character Value and Opacity and animating the Range Selector>Start to get a typewriter effect.

 

But the problem is that the leading character shuffles through all the intermediate character values from "_" to the final letter. And it doesn't blink.

 

 

I was thinking maybe there's a way to use expressions using two text layers and animators. Layer 1 contains the normal text with the Typewriter preset applied. Layer 2 reads Layer 1's Source Text property, advances one space and adds a blinking  "_", "|" or "█".  Any pointers? Or is there an easier way?


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