# Synchronise flashing colours

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/synchronise-flashing-colours/14911>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 28, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/synchronise-flashing-colours/14911 "2017-07-28T00:13:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/synchronise-flashing-colours/14911/1 "2017-07-28T00:13:39Z")

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Is it possible to synchronise objects with flashing colours on the screen, e.g. using style customers with animated properties on Fill Colour?

At the moment, I might have 10 valves on a screen and if all are in fault but have come into fault at different times, it looks a shambles because they all flash between their two colours at different times… I guess one thing going for the current display is that it looks awful and might alert the operators more readily 😅

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**Author:** ![Paul.Scott](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul.scott/32/4578_2.png) [@Paul.Scott](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Paul.Scott)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 7:16am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/synchronise-flashing-colours/14911/2 "2017-07-28T07:16:51Z")

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You would need some sort of window-based timer that all components could synchronize with. A Timer component would work here.

See the very-basic example attached.

[Window\_Timer\_Flash.proj](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/e/ef3d645847cd686e60fbc686e6ea5f912db8b12b.proj) (13.4 KB)

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**Author:** ![Sanderd17](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sanderd17/32/8735_2.png) [@Sanderd17](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sanderd17)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 7:33am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/synchronise-flashing-colours/14911/3 "2017-07-28T07:33:58Z")

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We often use a “flashing” bit for our projects: a memory tag that gets toggled every second via a gateway script.

Then we can let the colours depend on that bit to make everything flash synchronously, even across templates, popups etc.