Re: How do i make text in a control on a form flash

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

Access cannot give you blinking text (fortunately.)

You can achieve it if program the Timer event of the form, setting the
TimerInterval in milliseconds.

However, if must remember that this event could be running and taking the
CPUs attention at any time, so you can get strange effects such as messing
up the cursor location while you are trying to edit in the VBA window.

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

"jjbra" <jjbra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:F94E1840-9C15-4108-BA46-8B06077AA328@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>


.

Relevant Pages

  • Time outs and state machines
    ... I have a state machine that sends messages to an external device. ... the state machine waits for 20 milliseconds. ... receiving device before the timer event has elapsed, it stops the timer, ... The ACK message gets put on the queue and immediately after the ...
    (comp.object)
  • Re: How can I set the interval property to 30 or 60 minutes?
    ... The Interval property is measured in milliseconds and the max value ... Then the timer event ... Private Sub Timer1_Timer ...
    (microsoft.public.vb.controls)
  • Re: HELP! Need Access DB to show realtime changes in different location
    ... value can be between 0 and 65,535 milliseconds), and put code in the forms ... Timer event to do a requery ... Wouldn't that have the unwanted side-effect of setting the current record as ...
    (microsoft.public.access.forms)
  • Automatically run code at given time.
    ... Timer event of the form. ... minute (60,000 milliseconds) and check if the Timeis ... >the database do this automatically at 5PM. ... >your help with the automation code. ...
    (microsoft.public.access.modulesdaovba)
  • Re: Blinking font
    ... I would set the TimerInterval to zero based on when the blinking should not occur and then set the TimerInterval to 1000 when the conditions exist that require the control to blink and set the TimerInterval to 0 when the conditions do not exist. ... Then the Timer Event would have code like this to change to alternate the text color between white to black. ... Private Sub Form_Timer ...
    (microsoft.public.access.modulesdaovba)