VB Controls, making labels and/or text fields blink

making labels and/or text fields blink

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andy #1 / 5	making labels and/or text fields blink I'm coding in VB6 using forms. Ideally, I would like to have a label blink when it's visible. Have searched through help and seems like it's not available. I guess I could live with a blinking Text box, but then I couldn't find out if that's possble either and if it were then my question would be "how can I make a text box look like a label (i.e. without the border, etc.)". I would appreciate some help or direction (or education) on this matter. Thanks! p.s. usually the act of composing a question to the newsgroup results in me figuring out the answer ... but not this time.
Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:01:00 GMT

Mike #2 / 5	making labels and/or text fields blink Quote: > I'm coding in VB6 using forms. Ideally, I would like to > have a label blink when it's visible. Have searched > through help and seems like it's not available. I guess > I could live with a blinking Text box, but then I > couldn't find out if that's possble either and if it were > then my question would be "how can I make a text box look > like a label (i.e. without the border, etc.)". > I would appreciate some help or direction (or education) > on this matter. I suppose you could get fancier than this, but a Timer control should do it. Start a new project and put a Timer control and a Label control on a form. Keep the default names. Copy and paste this code: -----BEGIN CODE Option Explicit Private Sub Form_Load() Label1.Caption = "This text will flash" Label1.ForeColor = vbRed Label1.BackStyle = vbTransparent Label1.BorderStyle = vbBSNone Timer1.Interval = 500 '1/2 second Timer1.Enabled = True End Sub Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer) 'Always a good idea to disable timers before closing app Timer1.Enabled = False End Sub Private Sub Timer1_Timer() Label1.Visible = Not Label1.Visible End Sub -----END CODE Mike
Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:21:40 GMT

andy #3 / 5	making labels and/or text fields blink Thanks for the suggestion ... I guess there's no natural way to do this. Your code makes the red label visible and invisible over and over. Sounds like something I would have told someone to do when I was TA-ing at NYU 25 years ago as an undergrad but then I guess that's why it's still called BASIC. Hopefully the 500 setting will mean that the blinking is consistent across Pentium I's IIs IIIs, etc. Thanks! Quote: >-----Original Message----- >> I'm coding in VB6 using forms. Ideally, I would like to >> have a label blink when it's visible. Have searched >> through help and seems like it's not available. I guess >> I could live with a blinking Text box, but then I >> couldn't find out if that's possble either and if it were >> then my question would be "how can I make a text box look >> like a label (i.e. without the border, etc.)". >> I would appreciate some help or direction (or education) >> on this matter. >I suppose you could get fancier than this, but a Timer control should do it. - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Quote: >Start a new project and put a Timer control and a Label control on a form. >Keep the default names. Copy and paste this code: >-----BEGIN CODE >Option Explicit >Private Sub Form_Load() > Label1.Caption = "This text will flash" > Label1.ForeColor = vbRed > Label1.BackStyle = vbTransparent > Label1.BorderStyle = vbBSNone > Timer1.Interval = 500 '1/2 second > Timer1.Enabled = True >End Sub >Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer) > 'Always a good idea to disable timers before closing app > Timer1.Enabled = False >End Sub >Private Sub Timer1_Timer() > Label1.Visible = Not Label1.Visible >End Sub >-----END CODE >Mike >.
Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:04:15 GMT

Michael Col #4 / 5	making labels and/or text fields blink Quote: > Thanks for the suggestion ... I guess there's no natural > way to do this. Your code makes the red label visible > and invisible over and over. Sounds like something I > would have told someone to do when I was TA-ing at NYU 25 > years ago as an undergrad but then I guess that's why > it's still called BASIC. > Hopefully the 500 setting will mean that the blinking is > consistent across Pentium I's IIs IIIs, etc. You may perhaps wish to read the following site, http://digilander.libero.it/chiediloapippo/Engineering/iarchitect/ind..., it may give you some good ideas on UI design. In particular, "Here's a good rule of thumb to follow: _people hate blinking_. It is extremely distracting, and should only be used to draw the user's attention to the most severe conditions, such as: "Your computer is on fire". " In other words, either don't make the thing blink, or if you do, make sure that you provide a method for the user to stop the blinking. HTH -- Regards, Michael Cole
Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:45:24 GMT

Bob Butle #5 / 5	making labels and/or text fields blink Quote: > Thanks for the suggestion ... I guess there's no natural > way to do this. And that's a good thing. Blinking is almost universally loathed by users.
Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:47:15 GMT

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