BLINKING LABEL CAPTION WITHOUT USING TIMER

[ameen]

Hello,
Can any one give me some suggession whether it is possible to blink a label caption without using timer. If yes, I would appreciate for any suggession.

Thank you. Regards

Ameen

 

[WildWill]

One possible way (although I do not know how well it would work) would be to use a couple of loops and apllication.processmessage:

   for loop1 := 1 to NO_OF_BLINKS do
   begin
      for loop2 := 1 to DELAY do
      begin
       Application.ProcessMessages;
      end;
      label1.visible:= not(label1.visible);
   end

[code]

X-)
 Billy H

bhogar@acxiom.co.uk

 

[Nordlund]

I would not recommend this because it will blink different depending the CPU usage.

I would create a new TMyLabel with an built in timer.
Andreas Nordlund
Software developer

 

[TealWren]

Making a label with a built in timer could be bad if you're using Win95 or Win98. You can only have so many timers at a time in those OS's, and I can see you accidentally exceeding your limit with blinking labels quickly.

Perhaps you could make a TTimer descendant that had as a property a list of label controls that you want to blink. Then one timer could manage multiple blinking labels.

Just a thought. Windows doesn't really handle blinking that well. DOS kind of had it built in to the color scheme. TealWren