Loop Until Timer > t + 0.5

[mikeycorn]

I know there's going to be some guffaws from the gallery, but hey, I'm a newbie where graphics are concerned . . .

Okay, I searched to try to get a real basic example of bitblt but I couldn't find a basic enough example that I could paste in and see how it works and I didn't really know how to make a bunch of frames tacked on side by side in a single pic.

That being said, I tried this method:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
  For a = 0 To 4
  t = Timer
  Do
    DoEvents
    If a > 0 Then pic(a - 1).Visible = False
  Loop Until Timer > t + 0.5
  Next a
End Sub

Why is it so damn slow? I thought Loop Until Timer > t + 0.5 would give me a pretty accurate 1/2 second frame rate.

[Fox]

Try this:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim A As Long
    Dim Temp As Single
    
    While A < 5
        If Temp < Timer Then
            Temp = Timer + 0.5
            
            pic(A).Visible = False
            A = A + 1
        End If
        
        DoEvents
    Wend
End Sub


'Code improved by vBulletin Tool 2.0

[mikeycorn]

DUDE! That's awesome. I'll have to read up on those singles and figure out why it works on a single and not on a long.

[Sastraxi]

Actually, the reason is it's always checking agains an old number.

In your code, it looks for this:

t = 1000: timer = 1500: execute code.
t = 1000: timer = 2000: execute code.

If you had updated t each time it matched t + 0.5, your code would have worked.