newbie ques.. Timers

[helper]

i made 5 buttons
i want the 5th button, when clicked, to click on button 1, and after 5 seconds, click on button 2.. after 5 more sec to click on button 3, then after 5 more secs button 4

please show me the code
thanks

[Edneeis]

Huh?

If you only have 3 buttons how can it click on button 4? Is this one of those tricky word math problems?

If you already have a timer somewhere then just set its interval to 5000 and in the tick event (Or whatever the event is called now) and then fire the click event of the right button in there.

[helper]

LMAO, oh man im dumb

i fixed it

[h3adbang3r]

lol..

i would also like to know the answer for this

[h3adbang3r]

anyone know how to do this?

[hellswraith]

Here you go, put 6 buttons on the form, and add a timer control. Map the click events to the buttons and the tick event to the timer.

The five buttons will be what you want clicked, and the sixth is just to stop the timer when you want it to stop clicking the next button every four seconds.

Private btnLastClicked As System.Windows.Forms.Button
 
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        btnLastClicked = Button1
        Timer1.Interval = 4000
        Timer1.Stop()
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        btnLastClicked = Button1
        MessageBox.Show("Button 1 clicked")
        Timer1.Start()
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
        btnLastClicked = Button2
        MessageBox.Show("Button 2 clicked")
        Timer1.Start()
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
        btnLastClicked = Button3
        MessageBox.Show("Button 3 clicked")
        Timer1.Start()
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Button4_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button4.Click
        btnLastClicked = Button4
        MessageBox.Show("Button 4 clicked")
        Timer1.Start()
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Button5_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button5.Click
        btnLastClicked = Button5
        MessageBox.Show("Button 5 clicked")
        Timer1.Start()
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
        Timer1.Stop()
 
        If btnLastClicked Is Button1 Then
            Button2_Click(sender, e)
            Return
        End If
        If btnLastClicked Is Button2 Then
            Button3_Click(sender, e)
            Return
        End If
        If btnLastClicked Is Button3 Then
            Button4_Click(sender, e)
            Return
        End If
        If btnLastClicked Is Button4 Then
            Button5_Click(sender, e)
            Return
        End If
        If btnLastClicked Is Button5 Then
            Button1_Click(sender, e)
            Return
        End If
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Button6_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button6.Click
        Timer1.Stop()
    End Sub

[h3adbang3r]

thanks for your help

[hellswraith]

No problem. I am sure you could change the timer tick event code to reduce the if statements, maybe something like a select case statement.

[h3adbang3r]

Originally posted by hellswraith
No problem. I am sure you could change the timer tick event code to reduce the if statements, maybe something like a select case statement.

yea, i just wanted to see how the timer works, cause i had no clue

now i do .. thanks to u

[helper]

same here
thanks!