On fast intervals my grid controls normally goes jumpy. I don't like that.
Especially in this case where I just want certain rows to show "flashing"
colours. It might just be the in which I update the rows.

At the moment I'm experimenting with using a timer class in my classes. 
My app is displaying live data in some grid controls.
In the OnTimer Event in the class I check for changes in the data and then
trigger an event to my clients. This event would then refresh the grid
control. This seems to be working fine at the moment. And it saves me from
having to use a Timer Control! 


-----Original Message-----
From: Marco Straforini [mailto:marco.straforini@c...]
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 8:02 PM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] Re: Flashing colours


Why do you hate the Timer control? It does what it is supposed to do...
Sometimes I have even five of them in the same form/control (maybe
not all of them active at the same time) They do not waste any
resources. Just curious...

Marco

> I have a MSFlexgrid control that displays different colours per row. The
program spec requires some of these colours to flash. I achieved this by
using a Timer control and then displaying alternate shades of a certain
colour, say every half of a second. This works but I stubbornly believe
there is a better way (I hate using timer controls :( . 


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