[RESOLVED] Academic Label Questions

[Merri]

Well, Timer has very limited Extender object during runtime (that provides much of the default features for controls). You can make an UserControl that is similar to features of a Timer. This article is a good reading for anyone who wants to know how the controls work and why they work the way they do.


I'm not actually fully sure how a Label is implemented; it might be more of a hacked control than most others. It is drawn directly to the form, but it still does have Left and Top properties and Move... but it still ponders me how a label tells to it's parent form that it should be drawn, because apparently label drawing happens natively within the VB's form paint handling routine. Or maybe not, because a label does blink pretty badly sometimes... so that'd mean it is drawn after the default WindowProc.