[RESOLVED] Taking and manipulating numbers from a textbox

[BubbleLife]

Hi all,

I have a program that needs to take the numbers that the user inputs into a textbox out into a "Long" (maybe?) variable and reduce them (It's the number of seconds for a timer, so I need to reduce it by 1 on each iteration.

The problem is, however I try it, if I try and take the value from the text box (say, "123") and put that value into a integer/long variable, I get a type mismatch error. I also tried making the variable a string, but then I got a type mismatch when it got to the "Variable = variable - 1" line.

Any ideas?

[MartinLiss]

Text1.Text = Val(Text1.Text) -1

[BubbleLife]

Ahh! Thank you ^_^