Flashing the contents of a text box

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Hi,
I have a text box (locked) which is named locked. The contents of the text
box is either 'Y' or 'N'. Now I was wondering if the contents of the textbox
is 'Y' (forecolor = red) then how does one make this Y flash?
Is this possible inAccess? If it is so I would appreciate some link to
article or any help to resolve this issue. Thanks.
 
Its not advisable to have flashing fields in any application, however, look
up the Timer event in Access Help.
Basically it allows you to fire an event on a variable time basis then you
can flip the value from visible to invisible to make it appear it flashes.
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Jack said:
I have a text box (locked) which is named locked. The contents of the text
box is either 'Y' or 'N'. Now I was wondering if the contents of the textbox
is 'Y' (forecolor = red) then how does one make this Y flash?
Is this possible inAccess? If it is so I would appreciate some link to
article or any help to resolve this issue.
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Make sure the text box's ForeColor property is set to 0
(Black). Then set the form's TimerInterval to something
around 500 and use a Timer event procedure like:

Text0.ForeColor = Text0.ForeColor Xor vbRed

Note: most people find flashing items to be very annoying.
 
Jack said:
Hi,
I have a text box (locked) which is named locked. The contents of the text
box is either 'Y' or 'N'. Now I was wondering if the contents of the
textbox
is 'Y' (forecolor = red) then how does one make this Y flash?
Is this possible inAccess? If it is so I would appreciate some link to
article or any help to resolve this issue. Thanks.
Click to expand...

Use the form's timer for this. For a .5 sec flash, set the form's
TimerInterval to 500 (1000 milliseconds = 1 second). Do this when the
conditions are right for displaying in red. Then, in the Form_Timer event,
include code like this:

If Textbox.Color = vbRed Then
Textbox.Color = Me.BackColor
Else
Textbox.Color = vbRed
End If

Every half a second, the Y will be displayed in red, then the next half
second it will effectively 'disappear'.

To switch off the timer, set TimerInterval to 0.
 
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