[RESOLVED] Two timers running parallel to each other...

[Zmcpherson]

Hey guys, first of all I just wanted to say thanks for all the help given in the past couple weeks. Ive learned a ton and my program has been saving me hours and hours of work every day.

I want to expand it a little bit and add a second timer that runs parallel to the first timer, but is not affected in any way shape or form by the first timer.

I want the timers to run like this:

Time Timer1 Timer2
0 X X
1 X
2 X
3 X
4 X
5 X X
6 X
7 X
8 X
9 X
10 X X


Ive tried nesting the second loop in the first loop but the second loop takes 3 seconds to complete, so I found that it froze the first loop till the second loop finishes. I was reading about system threading (System.Timers.Timer) and it seems like that is the route I want to go.

I wrote this quick as an example:

This assumes that I added a windows timer control as timer1

Option Strict On
Imports System
Imports System.Timers
 
public class form1
 
    Private Shared timer2 As System.Timers.Timer
        timer2 = New System.Timers.Timer
        AddHandler timer2.Elapsed, AddressOf OnTimedEvent
        
 
    Public Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
 
timer1.Interval = 1000
timer1.enabled = true
timer2.Interval = 5000
timer2.Enabled = True
 
End sub
 
Public Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
 
'code for timer1 here
 
end sub
 
    Private Shared Sub OnTimedEvent(source As Object, e As ElapsedEventArgs)
 
        'code for timer2 here
 
    end sub
 
end class

Does this even make sense... or did I just spend the last 20 minutes making up my own language?