TIMER Question

[Pyabut]

hey everyone,

how can i get a vb timer control interval to go over 65,555 ms (1 minute) .... maybe at least every 10 minutes or more ??

Thanks,
Paolo

[kleinma]

Originally posted by Pyabut
hey everyone,

how can i get a vb timer control interval to go over 65,555 ms (1 minute) .... maybe at least every 10 minutes or more ??

Thanks,
Paolo

well short answer: you can't

answer you want: the timer interval is an integer.. which is cause for its limitation.. but you can get around it 1 of 2 ways

1) there are Timer API functions and you can use them to create your own timer through code. If you are not familiar with the Win32 API then this might be difficult for you.

2) the easier way is to set the timer interval to 60000 (1 minute) and when the timer event fires, you increase a count variable by 1. When the variable = 10 then you run whatever code you want.. something like this

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
    Static intCount as integer
    intCount = intCount + 1   
    if intCount = 10 then
        intCount = 0
        'Put code you want to run here
    end if 
End Sub

[nota141]

get the timer to run and check the store the system time + 10 min and then check that time with the system time when they match or stored is greater that current run the code.

[Pyabut]

Thanks everybody and i will try that kleinma