Can I have a colourful status line ?

[ric]

Hi,

The status line control come with VB is grey in colour with black text.

How can I have part of status bar with other background colour, text colour and blinking ?

Thanks a lot.

[CHAMPGARY]

Originally posted by ric
Hi,

The status line control come with VB is grey in colour with black text.

How can I have part of status bar with other background colour, text colour and blinking ?

Thanks a lot.

I think you cannot change back and fore color of th th status bar, but to avoid this, I have a simple trick , Instead of this bar use a label with whatever colors you want, borderstyle =1 and appearance = 3d , and show messages,
For blinking text use timer

Just see the attachment

Gary

[Hack]

Here is a cool way to "Flash" a panel in a statusbar.

Private Sub FlashSBPanel(PanelNo As Integer)
PanelToFlash = PanelNo
Timer1.Enabled = True
End Sub
 
Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
Static x As Boolean
If x = True Then
    StatusBar1.Panels(PanelToFlash).Bevel = sbrRaised
    x = False
Else
    x = True
    StatusBar1.Panels(PanelToFlash).Bevel = sbrInset
End If
End Sub
 
Private Sub cmdFlashSBPanel_Click()
FlashSBPanel 3
End Sub
 
Private Sub cmdStopFlash_Click()
Timer1.Enabled = False
StatusBar1.Panels(PanelToFlash).Bevel = sbrInset
End Sub

To add colors and such, download the StatusPanel code from this link. http://www.coderoom.com/forms_vb7.html