Flashing message in an HTA

Posted by Highlander on February 15, 2008, 9:33 am

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Hello all.

I've found the following script handy for usage with an HTA:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/jan08/hey0130.mspx

My question is...how can I cause the message displayed
("Searching ....") to flash every couple seconds while it's
processing; and then stop flashing when it's finished?

Just want to spruce up my HTA a bit. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks!

- Dave

Posted by Travis Newbury on February 15, 2008, 10:38 am

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Use Flash. With CS3 it is a match made in heaven for applications on
the web.

Posted by Andy Dingley on February 15, 2008, 11:12 am

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Firstly HTA is a red-herring. HTA's are evil and best avoided. What
you asked for literally can be done in a web-compliant fashion,
without needing that sort of necromancy. Web techniques apply to HTAs
OK, some HTA techniques are (thankfully!) forbidden for web use.

Find a good JavaScript tutorial. (M$oft isn't - they're too busy
pushing proprietary tweaks, not standards).

Study two things: How to do simple visual effects by dynamic CSS
changes, and using JavaScript's .SetTimeout() method to drive things
with intervals. The rest is just a bit of practice and legwork in
coding your scripts.

If you get stuck, try asking in comp.lang.javascript

Don't use VBScript. Don't ever use it for web work (client-side or
server-side). It's an ugly language, anything it can do, JavaScript or
JScript can do better. Mostly though, using J(ava)Script gives you
some hope of working on other browsers, client-side VBScript limits
you and your users to IE only.

Flash would be ridiculous overkill for this.

Posted by MikeB on February 15, 2008, 7:24 pm

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Thanks for all the responses.

I was hoping there was something simple like:

But this doesn't work. I believe it's an issue with the BLINK element
not working in IE 6.

Thanks for the code Jonathan, but it doesn't work on my machine. Plus,
that amount of code is overkill for simply wanting to make some text
flash. I think I'll shelf this idea.

Thanks again.

- Dave

Don't cave so fast. After you do it once, you will have it for posterity..

Posted by Blinky the Shark on February 15, 2008, 7:37 pm

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MikeB wrote:

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Hey, I'll do the blinking around here.

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