Adding a through controls.add?

[wkdwilliams]

This is what I'm doing:

Dim count As New Timer
controls.add(count)

Is there an alternative to this? as VB doesn't seem to like it.

[dbasnett]

Look at your question. Do we know what controls is or should we assume something? "VB doesn't seem to like it" doesn't mean much.

What are you trying to accomplish?

[dunfiddlin]

VB doesn't like it at all. Timer is not a control!

[Shaggy Hiker]

A timer is a component rather than a control, and the Controls collection can only accept Controls or things derived from Control. Fortunately, this doesn't matter, as there is no good reason to add a timer to a Controls collection. A timer is not contained within anything, but is just a member variable in the form class itself. Since it has no location, or any of the other features of a control, you wouldn't gain in any way by adding it to a collection.

[wkdwilliams]

A timer is a component rather than a control, and the Controls collection can only accept Controls or things derived from Control. Fortunately, this doesn't matter, as there is no good reason to add a timer to a Controls collection. A timer is not contained within anything, but is just a member variable in the form class itself. Since it has no location, or any of the other features of a control, you wouldn't gain in any way by adding it to a collection.

Ah, I get it... what was I thinking. Very obvious really.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Frankly, I've made that mistake, as well. Something on the toolbar, such as a timer and all controls, gets dragged onto the form. In that way, you are interacting with all of them in a similar fashion, so it is fairly automatic to assume that they are all the same animal in some way.

[Niya]

The designer tricks you into believing that a parent/child relationship exists between a Form and a Component like a Timer. Only controls have a true relationship via the Form's control collection but with Timers and such, the designer adds it to an IContainer implementation which is referenced by nothing more than a private field generated by the designer. Any class that implements IComponent and has a public constructor that takes an IContainer will be added to the IContainer implementation referenced by the designer generated private field of the Form.