Showing message on screen for fixed time period

[Huehnerschaender]

Place a TTimer component on your form, set its Interval on 5000, its Enabled on False and paste this in its OnTimer event:

dxFontBonus.TextOut(dxDrawGame.Surface,300,330,'Bonus Life');

An then somewhere:

if &#40;points >= 25000&#41; and &#40;points <= 27000&#41; then
  Timer1.Enabled &#58;= True;

Hope that helps :!:

This will not help because it will show the text for hours if the player stops scoring after reaching 25000 points.

In addition to that, if I read your code right, it will let the text blink every 5 seconds for a wink of an eye