David...

They're going to have to blink all the time the thermbar is active. I'm playing around with this, and appreciate your advice.

Sorry 'bout the extraneous copying. I'm fairly new to the UT, and learning the ettiquette. I still pine for the early days of the FoxForum on CompuServe, and am just getting my feet wet here. :)

Scott


>Scott,
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>You can only enable the timer during the code segment you want to have your shapes blink. They really aren't as much overhead as you seem to think they are. Just try a test program to see the effect.
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>Also please don't copy me on your replies to other people's messages. Thanks.
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>>I was concerned that a timer would affect performance, especially when I'm doing some serious querying that's grabbing a lot of system resources. Either the queries would be slowed down by the timer, or the timer would be stuttering because of the lack of resources that VFP will devote to it vs. the query. In either event, it would be better to simply tell the hardware that this is a flashing component than to repeatedly tell it to flash.
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>>Am I incorrect in this assumption about performance?