Howard, I am not sure if you want the field with the value to blink or another field showing a message. If it is the second case, you can use a static text control and use the blinking properties to determine the look and feel of the message. You can change the parameters at run time using PROPERTY commands. Here is a snippet from one of my applications:
-- Start process PROPERTY vci_BlinkText + CAPTION 'DO NOT INTERRUPT - Synchronization in progress...' PROPERTY vci_BlinkText BLINKINTERVALON '1000' PROPERTY vci_BlinkText BLINKINTERVALOFF '1000' ... -- your code here ... -- At End of process PROPERTY vci_BlinkText CAPTION + 'SYNCHRONIZATION COMPLETED - Press CONTINUE Button...' PROPERTY vci_BlinkText BLINKINTERVALON '1000' PROPERTY vci_BlinkText BLINKINTERVALOFF '1000' You can also use other properties to make you field visible or invisible. Hopefully this will give you, as R:azzak says, some blues clues... Javier, Javier Valencia, PE 913-915-3137 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Howard Langfus Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 5:35 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - How to Blink Hi, Would appreciate any help regarding the use of the blink function. Can't seem to locate any built in help that addresses my issue. I am attempting to get a field to blink in a form where the column value in the driving table is not meets a value. In other words if there is a column value, it should blink. The column should not constantly blink, only when properly populated. Using latest version of 7.6. Any suggestions would be most welcome. Howard Langfus
