How to make flashing/blinking text.

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:
now create a form load event like this:
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:
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:


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

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

Pretty simple but very good your the beginners!

I think this is easier!

Add 2timers
1 label

Add this to form load!
Add this code to timer1:


add this code to timer2: