Hi,
I've been searching for hours now and can't seem to find out how to create a messagebox type display with no buttons. I just want to display a message box saying "Now Printing" for 3 seconds and then have it disappear. Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks so much!
pamskate5

The MessageBox class won't display a message without a button. That's for the best anyway because it's modal so the program can't take action to close it and the message box would just sit there locking the application forever.

Probably the easiest thing to do is to make a new form. Give it a Timer that closes the form after 3 seconds and display it using Show. You can make it topmost if you want. You might also want to make it non-resizable and centered on the screen.

Rod


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Hi Rod,
    Thanks for the advice... it did the trick! I added a windows form called flash_message, added a label field and added a timer control and changed the interval property to 3000 for 3 seconds and added the code below.

Private Sub Flash_Message_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Label1.Text = "Now Printing... Please Wait!"
        Timer1.Enabled = True
    End Sub

    Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
        Timer1.Enabled = False
        Me.Close()
    End Sub

Thanks,
pamskate5