my 2 cents worth. I agree with the others. At first the whole idea seems archaic and a pain. HOWEVER, as in many, many cases of posts here, when some one truly explains their purposes (as opposed to simply tossing out a request), then things DO change. Very sorry that you felt the initial jocularity was not jocularity. As has been pointed out, once we knew that this is a serious request - not just someone want trying to be cool ( remember the blinking crap on earlier web sites?...ugh ugh ugh)...then the tone decidedly changed, and people ARE willing to try and find a solution for you. This is why it is SO important to be up front and clear as to both requests for help/assistance, and clarity in expressing the reason for that need.
Back to your problem. You need SOMETHING to get attention that is dependent on a condition. How and by what method does that conition get passed to the form? Certainly it is possible to use a timer. However, if we had some idea of how the information is passed to the form that demands the button to be pressed, perhaps we can help more.
My first question is this:
if there is some condition that passes information to a form that requires a button being pressed, why is there user input in the first place? if a conditon is critical enough to REQUIRE a button pressed, then it seems to be that the conditon is critical enough to push the button (i.e.firing / executing something) directly.
Again, sorry that you felt negativity from us, but please persist. What you asking (in itself) is something generally most of us do not like, however, the REASON for such an attention focus is decidedly more important that a blicking "Click Me!" link on a scummy web site. So keep hanging in here, as hopefully some sort of resolution will be forthcoming.
Again, could you tell us, WHAT, specifically, determines that this button demands attention. Are you saying thar at OTHER times, the button is still there to be pushed, but the condition is not critical? If so, (please do clarify), then again, why not make the thing fire on its own?