>>>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.
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>Thanks

Just to add one small note to Ed's post, FlashWindowEx() requires Win98 or later or Win2K or later. IOW, it isn't available on Win95 or any version of WinNT.