So i tried the message queue! it worked well!! :)

I made a custom class storing the (string) message, (Color) color of the message and (int) progress bar value.

I made a Queue for my custom class and using a timer, I kept picking notifications off the Queue if there were any, otherwise setting my controls to their default values :)

thanks so much for your help! :D...

Thanks Gary!

1)I thought about a message queue, I was just worried about messages piling up and not being written in good time...

like if a user selects 4 different rows from a grid view in quick succession, and i'm taking 2 seconds to display each message about the gridrow selected, it'll take 8 seconds to display all the messages, the user might be confused when he gets backed up messages that dont relate to the most...

Hi all!
I really need to show neat and professional looking messages, like helper tips, or error notifications, in quick succession, often occurring before the first message has disappeared....

I was trying to display those notifications in a ToolStripStatus Label, but whats happening with my code is I have to wait for my background worker to finish displaying one message, before the other can be displayed and this hangs the UI...