How to make flashing/blinking text.

[XGelite]

ok well this prolly isnt very useful, but its nice to know.

ok what you need is:

a timer
a form
a label

what to do:

make a windows form and put a label anywhere and put whatever text you like and whatever color you like.

drag a Timer onto you form.Then double click the Timer1 and under the tick even put:

Timer1.Interval = (1000)  //1 second 
Me.Label1.Visible = Not Me.Label1.Visible

now create a form load event like this:

Private Sub Main_Frm_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal _
        e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

change Main_Frm_Load to whatever the name of you form is ( proll form1 so change it to Form1_Load) ( Main_Frm is the name of my form.)

now under the load event put in:

Timer1.enabled = True

now if you want the texts to blink after pushing a button

under the form load event change from Timer1.enabled = True to Timer1.enabled = False -like this:

Private Sub Main_Frm_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal _
        e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

Timer1.enabled = False

end sub

then add a button to your windows form and double click it.
Under the button click event put:

Timer1.enabled = True

and there you go! you should now be able to code a blinking/Flashing text in VB!! Hope i helped

btw i did this in vb2008 and vb2010

[Zoom]

Pretty simple but very good your the beginners!

I think this is easier!

Add 2timers
1 label

Add this to form load!

Timer1.interval = 100
timer2.interval = 200
timer1.enabled = true
timer2.enabled = true

Add this code to timer1:

label1.hide()

add this code to timer2:

label1.show()

[MrEncrypted]

Nice, thanks for the Info. Comes in handy for people like ME in the process of Learning programming.

Much Thanks

[XGelite]

Pretty simple but very good your the beginners!

I think this is easier!

Add 2timers
1 label

Add this to form load!

Timer1.interval = 100
timer2.interval = 200
timer1.enabled = true
timer2.enabled = true

Add this code to timer1:

label1.hide()

add this code to timer2:

label1.show()

that's really not that much easier lol same basic thing....but i guess the Me.Label1.Visible = Not Me.Label1.Visible


would be a lil harder to remember for the beginners.