When a button is clicked on my forum i need it to enable a timer that has a RANDOM inverval. how to do it or give an example. (im trying to create an autotyper that types a given phrase at random times)
View 5 RepliesWhat I need to do to make this code work for hours as well?[code]...
View 6 RepliesI have a quesion about using the timer1 function. I am a complete virgin when it comes to programming, so please be kind. I have a project that is using an NCD relay controller to control linear actuators. I want one relay to turn on and then stay on for 10 seconds and then turn off. I set the timer1 properties to enable with an interval time of 10000. I am programming a button to turn on the relay then wait 10 seconds then turn the relay off. All that happens is the relay comes on then off immediatley. I have tryed to do this several different ways with the same results. It is though the timer1 is not getting recognized. So my main question is, what steps am I missing, and how do I get a delay of 10 seconds before the program recognizes the turnoffrelay command?
View 2 RepliesHow to make the timer interval less than 1 ms ? other wise i want to make the interval of the timer 0.001 or 0.05 at most.
View 13 RepliesSo, I have two timers. 1 Timer is set with an interval of 1000 (milliseconds), therefore it goes off every 1 second. For some reason, when I set the interval on the same timer to 1, it goes off 100 times every second. Shouldn't it go off 1000 times every second? What's going on?
View 4 RepliesHow can I get a timer to run one interval,one interval only, and stop? Until now I have only used timers to keep running until I say to stop. Also I need a timer that will start at the beginning of, and run until any given process is completed.Upon completion it should shut off and tell me how long the process took. Kinda like a stop watch with a Stop / Start "Trigger".
View 19 RepliesI was wondering how do I make it so that people that use my program can change the Timer Interval. So they can set the timer.
View 3 RepliesHow can I change the interval of a timer to tics, or change the scale of movement from pixels to twips?
View 12 RepliesI have an animation program which allows users to import and animate images. I do this using timer events. I have a listbox which contains the image references, and a Image which displays the chosen image. Here is the
When the user clicks the "Animate" button:
vb.net
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles animate.Click
Dim cananimate As Boolean = True
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I want to make a dialog to appear and allow the user to select a custom FPS for the animation. For instance, if they type 15, the listbox must go down 15 images in 1 second. But how do I convert FPS to a timer interval?
How would you make the Interval of a timer to be between two times.
E.g if you wanted an event to occur between every 7 and 20 seconds?
I am trying to write a simple code that will essentially change the background oclor of a form from say red to green, like every five seconds.(Actually, it will be green 4 and red 6 seconds). I set my timer interval to 1000 and enabled it. So when I write my if/then statements in the timer area, would I be using timer.interval <=4, or timer.interval <=4000 to count off four seconds?
View 1 RepliesI don't know much about vb.net so I'm hoping this is something that can be done fairly easily. We currently have a system where valves are fired by checkboxes (representing each valve) being checked at certain intervals and when the last valve is switched the timer restarts in order for the sequence to repeat itself. We would like to be able to have a textbox in the form where we can just type in the interval at which the valves (checkboxes) switch without having to change the interval manually in the code each time we want to change it. Currently in our code we just have a set interval. Here's the code:
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I have dragged and droped a timer control "tmrGetMappingXML" from the Common Controls Tab in Tool Box. The issue that I am mentioning also appears for the Timer Control present in the Components Tab in tool box.
In the form Load I have written:
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tmrGetMappingXML.Interval = 3600 '1 Hour = 3600 Seconds
tmrGetMappingXML.Enabled = True
tmrGetMappingXML.Start()
The timer interval is also set in the design time to 3600 seconds. But the Tick event of the timer fires continuously every second.
I have an MDI form, and all of its children have a timer control. I also have an options form where the user can change the automatic refresh interval, which is loaded from the parent. The interval is stored in My.Settings.UpdateInterval as a Double.What is the best way to update all of the timer interval of the Children? Can the Children listen for an event in the parent form (UpdateIntervalChanged)?
View 2 Repliesis it possible to specify a System.Timers.Timer with 0.1ms interval?
View 14 Repliesmy event in timer goes too fast, i need to slower it. the interval is ok, i cant use sleep because it freeze everything ( webbrowser control ) and it need to stay active not freezing. i tried application. doevents() no result same problem, is there a way to do what i need? its a program that automatically fill a webbrowser form and restart every-time. there no logout button so i need to use setmouseposition and mouse_event but timer do event too fast one after other and if i use sleep everything go wrong.
View 5 Repliesam really getting to know more about programming each day. really interesting.
i have a form with some labels.. i need each label to display a text after certain time of the time count. i have this piece i put together.. didnt work but i guess it need a little professional touch.
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I'm working on a small game that I want to sync with the intensity of the music. I have a timer added and I want the interval to change with the intensity of the song playing. How would I go about doing this? I tried playing with Zplay and BASS.net with no luck.
View 1 Repliesmy function is to adjust a timer interval according to a integer variable.
Original code (works fine):
Code:
Dim UpdateSnakeSpeed
Select Case UpdateSnakeSpeed
Case currentscore > 199
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This is the code I'm using right now. (works fine and is more logically correct than the above case statement. I have chosen to go with if .. end if statements over case, as I do not have a full understanding of what the variable SnakeUpdatespeed is doing in the Select case statement. If someone explains then I'll consider it. Also I know case statments are only meant to be used for 1 option selections, however I'm amazed that it still works in case. Atm it's going to be if end if. Now I'm trying to get the for next loop going with this (if it's logically possible). that's what i'm aiming overall out of this thread. To make a convenient loop.
is there a way to show the current time left of the timer interval( in a label or something?)something like a count down for the next interval?
View 2 RepliesI have been making an online role playing-game in VB2008 and inside the gameloop for the client there is some code that "smoothes" out the movement (instead of it being choppy from tile to tile.) It works pretty well but I'm having problems figuring out a math formula to get a good frame timer interval to set how fast the frames change based on how many pixels they can move per loop.Testing stuff out I found that 250ms is an ideal frame timer interval for 1.0 pixel movement per loop. If I were to double the movement step of pixels by 2 lets say (2.0 pixel step per loop) I found that the frame timer interval should be around 125ms. How can I get the frame timer interval by the movement step of pixels? In cases where the movement step can anything between 0.1 to 4.0 pixels.
View 3 RepliesI have an application that updates a great number of fields on a pretty short interval timer. (on a standard form)Question is as follows... which one of these statements will work better for this? (working better = faster/smoother)Dim textToUpdate as string
if textbox1.text <> textToUpdate then textbox1.text = textToUpdate
OR textbox1.text = textToUpdate
How would I code it so that I can use a random to add the number of the control so that a random control will be enabled. I.E. I'm trying to make a duck shooting game, random will get a random number then append that number to "picturebox" so that it becomes "picturebox36" to "picturebox70". Then I wall use that string along with ".enabled = true" in order to enable it.
So far I have this:
Public Class Form1
Dim RandomA As New Random
Dim rnd As New Integer
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I'm trying to enable a timer from a SerialPort_DataReceived event. I can see that the timer is enabled, but the event does not fire. It's rather simple, but I need some help understanding why it doesn't run the code in TimerWait_Tick.
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In my Windows Form's application, I enable and start a Windows Form's Timer for a state machine which interacts with various User Controls. In one part of the state machine where an external device is being rebooted, I need to disable the User Interface (a User Control's UI) for the time it takes the device to reboot. The problem exists in that once I use System.Threading.Sleep, the timer that fires the State Machine stops and never restarts. I even re-enabled the Timer and re-started it after the Sleep command but to no avail. Is this expected operation or should a Windows Form's Timer be able to restart after a Sleep?
Snippet of code from a step in the state machine below:
Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor
MainForm.Enabled = False
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(8000)
MainForm.Enabled = True
Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default
MainForm.t1.Enabled = True
MainForm.t1.Start()
how to enable /disable the timer with a button and how enable /disable the timer with a checkbox? and the opposite how to enable /disable a button with a timer and how to enable /disable a checkbox with a timer
View 5 RepliesI'm trying to make a "guess the musical interval" game, which will play two separate random audio files in succession.So far, I've got it doing that quite well. Here's my issue:I have a list of check-boxes listing off the different intervals that I want potentially hear when I click btnPlay. i.e., if every musical interval's checkbox is checked, I want it to potentially play any interval (unison - octave). Easy.However, if I uncheck "unison" I want my random number x to be not equal to my random number y (x <> y)If I uncheck minor 2nd, I want random number x and random number y to never be 1 number apart (x - y <> 1)?
Here's my code, I'm sort of getting lost here. I can't get inequalities to work, it says "expression is not a method."
Public Class Form1
Dim x As Integer
Dim y As Integer
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So I just spent the last 4 hours trying to find out what was wrong with my code, just to find out that there's a bug in this version or I just don't have enough knowledge of VB2010 (I'm coming from VB6, this is my first program on 2010)I removed the rest of the code just to point out the problem, here it simply tries to enable the Timer1 when you receive data in the SerialPort1
Private Sub SerialPort1_DataReceived(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventArgs) Handles SerialPort1.DataReceived
If Me.Timer1.Enabled = False Then
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After this I found that the code inside the Timer1 didn't run when the 100miliseconds passed, so I added a msgbox to see debug.
Private Sub SerialPort1_DataReceived(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventArgs) Handles SerialPort1.DataReceived
If Me.Timer1.Enabled = False Then
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I am wondering if there is any code guide to teach me how to enable the user to draw as many buttons as possible on the windows form and be able to move and resize the buttons on the GUI and also tie the buttons to the timer to toggle the button colour when ever a condition is true
View 5 RepliesI want to execute a code between 30 seconds and 5 minutes. Anyone knows how to do this?
Timer_Tick(...)handles ....
dim rnd as new random
for i as integer = 3000 to 30000