Vista - How can I get a form to gradually fade rather than just hide

I have just tried to post a message, but it disappeared off the screen
so I do not know if it's previously posted. If this is duplicated then
please accept my apologies.

I have a form which shows on the screen and currently hides itself
after 15 seconds, but I would rather it faded out gradually over a
space of ten seconds.

I have played with the frm.opacity percentage, and run this in a for i
= 1000 to 0 step -1 but this does not fade the form at all. I have
also tried to put an application.doevents there too, and print the int
(i/100) value on the screen and this shows fine, but the opacity does
not fade.

Please does anyone know if I can get a form to gradually fade out.

I am using VB.NET 2005

Thank you in advance for any feedback.

Terry

Terry,

Use a Timer, 1000 to 0 step -1 is something you and y cannot see

We are human you know I thought that it was that everything that flashes
inside second/18 we don't see and this are pico's or less.

Cor

"ngrTerry" <ngr@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Here's the code I use to fade-in a form. It's in a Shown event handler.

For i As Integer = 0 To 100
Me.Opacity = i / 100
Thread.Sleep(10)
Next i

Since I am fading-in and you want to fade-out you probably want to run the
loop backwards.

Good Luck, Bob


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