Need a lil help !!

[rhea_mh]

Does anyone in there know anything about the timer? If so can you please give me some pointers. I really appreciate it.

[filburt1]

A timer in QBasic? Perhaps you meant to ask in the Visual Basic Forum...

[IWright]

Help file for "Timer" in QBasic

This covers pretty much everything about the timer... setting it up using timer on/off. Using the "On Timer(n%) Gosub line" you can execute a sub procedure if a certain time is reached.

I can't remember how it exactly works because it's a long time since I played with it, but stick that example at the bottom into basic, play with the numbers, and you'll see what everything does in no time. Hope that helps.


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TIMER enables, disables, or suspends timer event trapping.
If event trapping is enabled, ON TIMER branches to a subroutine whenever
a specified number of seconds has elapsed.

TIMER ON
TIMER OFF
TIMER STOP
ON TIMER(n%) GOSUB line

þ TIMER ON Enables timer event trapping.
þ TIMER OFF Disables timer event trapping.
þ TIMER STOP Suspends timer event trapping. Events are processed
once event trapping is enabled by TIMER ON.
þ n% The number of seconds that elapse before ON TIMER
branches to the event-trapping subroutine; a value in
the range 1 through 86,400 (24 hours).
þ line The label or number of the first line of the
event-trapping subroutine.

Example:
ON TIMER(1) GOSUB TimeUpdate
TIMER ON
CLS
PRINT "Time: "; TIME$
StartTime = TIMER
WHILE TimePast < 10
TimePast = TIMER - StartTime
WEND
END

TimeUpdate:
LOCATE 1, 7: PRINT TIME$
RETURN
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