Make a label on a form flash 2

[yankinsf]

How do I make a label on a form flash?
Appreciate your response.

Sam

 

[SteveR77]

Sam,

You can use the form's Timer Event to toggle the background color of the label.

If you set the Timer Interval to 1000 then every second the color will change.

The code will look something like this -


Private Sub Form_Timer()

If Text0.BackColor = vbgray Then
Text0.BackColor = vbYellow
Else
Text0.BackColor = vbgray
End If

End Sub

 

[yankinsf]

Thanks for your tip,Steve,but since I am not accustomed to writing VBA code,is 'text0'in your code the label name?

 

[HockeyGuy]

Sam:

Yes - Text0 is the label on your form

I have developed many apps for different clients and never found a good enough reason to pester my users with flashing controls. Don't you hate it when you go to a web page and those HTML whores throw everything but the kitchen sink at you. Try to find a better way to direct your user.

Rick

 

[yankinsf]

Rick,
I completely agree with you about the flashing label nuisance.What I really wanted to do was have the label flash for 5 secs when the user opens up the Form and then stop flashing.
Is that possible?

Sam