>Never say never, I always say ...
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>My "Red Screen of Death", which appears when a user gets an unrecoverable error (which I save for inspection), is already a very annoying screen to the user. Of course, my hope is that no user ever needs to see it ... but when they do, there is one line of text which does flash every second.
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>Windows design guidelines, after all, are only guidelines. (By the way, and I do not mean this facetiously, where can I get a list of the Windows design guidelines?)
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>>>is there any way to make the text flash WITHOUT using the timer
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>>>alternatively is there any way to make the title bar flash OR change colours without using the TIMER
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>>>my problem in using the timer is that it slows down the program.
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>>Never use flashing on forms. It is very annoying and tiring to users and goes against Windows design guidelines.
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>>Use another means of highlighting, like different colors (foreground/background).

You've been watching too much CSI Miami! :-)