function to display a countdown

dgr7 · February 14th, 2007, 09:37 AM

hello,
I'm using the Sleep function currently in some VB code so my program stops and waits until whatever time I specify for it to, but the problem with Sleep, is the user of my program has no idea how much time has elapsed. What I'd like to do is instead have a fuction that I can pass to it the time in seconds that I want to elapse, then that function displays a small window that shows the time counting down second-by-second in real time and also has a button that when clicked stops the countdown and executes the function.
Could anyone share with me the code that would acomplish this?
thanks in advance,
david

gbianchi · February 14th, 2007, 10:01 AM

hi there.. what about using a timer control that refresh a textbox every second??

HTH

Gonzalo

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dgr7 · February 14th, 2007, 10:04 AM

gonzalo,
hello,
I'm relatively new to VB, how would I do that?
and
I did want to have the option of clicking a button and stopping the timer early.
thanks,
david

gbianchi · February 14th, 2007, 10:20 AM

a timer control is one of the control you could add to your forms.

This one has only one relevant event that is raise every number of milliseconds (you decide when)...

for your case, and for the sake of simplicity, i would use a timer with his interval set to 1000 (that's 1 second), and display the remaining time...

when the user press the button you only has to disable the timer (set enable to false) and do whatever you want to...

HTH

Gonzalo

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dgr7 · February 15th, 2007, 07:05 PM

thank you for your help,
I did figure out a solution from a posting on another website.