Timer for set minutes or hours ?

[rjohnst]

Hello...

I have placed a timer control on my forum and would like to set the interval (or loop) to go by a user defined interval. The program is going to watch for files in a particular directory and Iwould like the user to control how often it checks. It appears that you can only set the timer interval to 65000 milli-secs.

Can anyone help with increasing that ??? Can you ?

Thanks for any help, it is appreciated.

Rob

[darjay]

The way I got around that was to set a counter inside the timer procedure that incremented each time the routine was called used this value to calculate how many minutes had passed.

When the desired number of seconds had been reached I reset the counter to 0.....

i.e. timer interval set to 1000 (1 sec) so dividing the counter by 1000 told me how many seconds had passed and used this figure to trigger my procedure....

Hope this helps...