>>>Hi all:
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>>>i want to try and show error messages encountered on a form with a flashing title bar. how can i achieve this ?
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>>>sincere thanks.
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>>You can do so with a timer and the Caption property of the form, but only the caption will flash not the bar itself.
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>This one is intresting.
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>Mark I have a question on this one. Can you run the timer to flash the background color to make it seem as though the entire bar was flashing? If so I may be able to use this myself.

The title bar color is controlled by Windows settings so you can not alternate the title bar colors to give the appearance of flashing. There may be some WinAPI that would do this.

IMHO, I think you are better off not messing with Window title bars and use something like the Status Bar control. Even a container just below the title bar or at the bottom of the form that you can totally control is better. You could even set the TitleBar property to zero [off], then use a container control to simulate a Title bar.