Craig...

Thanks for your response.

I know it violates the guidelines, but there are a number of those guidelines (such as MDI) that make applications *much* harder to use than a user-centric application should be. I follow those guidelines where they assist the user, but I'm happily agnostic about them when they get in the way.

I can't just use a timer, unfortunately. I'm attempting to create, in essence, an animated thermometer bar using shapes (circles, specifically) to represent the landmarks in the therm's process. So, this thermbar will:

1) begin with 10 (or 20 or whatever) small red circles
2) fill items with green as that step is completed
3) show the current step as a flashing yellow

Since this thermbar will only be updated periodically, I can't spare the clock cycles to update it twice every second or so. This is why I'm looking for a property that can be set or manipulated to emulate blinking.

Worst case, I'll make the current step a static yellow, but a blinking yellow would be much more dynamic and meaningful: it would clearly indicate that the system is doing something, not, as Alan Cooper says, "going stupid". :)

Scott



>>Hi, all...
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>> Anybody know how to make a label (or a shape) blink? I'd like to avoid having to explicitly set color pairs for a particular object (in 2.6, you add an asterisk to the color pair to make it's forecolor blink).
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>> TIA...
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>>Scott
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>First, blinking prompts runs contrary to Windows Guidelines. You can make an object blink by using a timer and setting the visible property of the object.