Simple animation using timer only.

[Dude1]

Hi, I remember there is a way to do simple animation using only a timer and a picture box. Where you load in a picture into the box every whatever seconds and it makes an animation. Does anybody know how to do that. I remember it's something like:

Timer1.interval - tickcount..blah balh blah.

Please help. Thanks!

[Jotaf98]

Hum you must be confused, because if you're using GetTickCount() you won't need any timers

So, you want a simple animation? Do you wanna use APIs or pure VB?

[Dude1]

Actually I'm doing this for a DirectX game. I just want to know the simple logic.

Thanks

[Jotaf98]

For a DirectX game you should use GetTickCount. Here's the pice of code I'm using; it's in the beggining of the main loop (inside the Do...Loop thingy):

'Slow down the FPS...
        Do
            DoEvents
        Loop Until GetTickCount() >= LastTick + TicksPerFrame
        LastTick = GetTickCount()

You'll have to declare LastTick and TicksPerFrame as Long (unless you wanna use another slow type ). TicksPerFrame is the number of miliseconds that each frame will last - usually 30 is a good number