Hi guys,
Most of you had created many programs for various purpose. But have you ever thought of some animation in your program..

Here I am going to mention a small tutorial on creating a blinking text effect. It is for pure beginners.

First of all open the Visual Basic using Start>Programs>Microsoft Visual Studio>Visual Basic 6.0.

Then select Standard EXE and click open.
You will get a blank Form.

From the toolbox(in left side), select Command Button and create two buttons in your form(say, Command1 and Command2).
Also, create a Timer in your form(say, Timer1)

Then open the code window(View menu> View Code).
Then write the code as below:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Timer1.Interval = 100 'interval of the timer
Timer1.Enabled = True 'starting the animation
Label1.Caption = "Welcome" 'text to display
End Sub

Private Sub Command2_Click()
Timer1.Enabled = False 'stopping the animation
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
Timer1.Enabled = False 'disabling the animation on loading the form
End Sub

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
If Label1.Visible = True Then 'checking whether it is visible
	Label1.Visible = False 'if visible then, make it invisible
ElseIf Label1.Visible = False Then 'checking whether it is invisible
	Label1.Visible = True 'if invisible then, make it visible
End If
End Sub

I had included most of the comments in the code itself. I think you understand my coding. If you have any doubt, please feel free to contact me....

-Akhilesh B Chandran

you messed up on the " Private Sub Form_Load()
Timer1.Enabled = False
End Sub " part but hey w/e

Dear Sir
Thank you but the following statement is redundant:

If Label1.Visible = False Then 'checking whether it is invisible