countdown control

[Malcolm Salisbury]

Hello

I would like to have a control of a form that counted down to zero from an adjustable amount which i know is easy with looping code. But i would like it to be connected to time. Accurate to the computer clock. So I could set the timer for 2 mins and the count down would show min and seconds till zero and the another event would trigger.

Any hints or even if this is possible would be appreciated

Malcolm

[Stan Mathews]

RE: countdown control

Forms have ontimer events which should handle what you want.

Open form in design mode, right click on form, choose Events, OnTimer...

[Jim Chapman]

RE: countdown control

Hello Malcolm,

I did a count down xdialog box that I believe shut down Alpha Five at the end of the count down. Of course you could make it do whatever you wanted. It was done is response to a message board question I believe from Martin Cole. It might be in the code archives, as I believe Martin spruced it up a bit and posted it there. A form control would be very easy to do with the same logic.

Good luck,

Jim

[Malcolm Salisbury]

RE: countdown control

Thanks for the code

I've got a dialog box that has my count down timer on to it.
How to I trigger the start of the timer with the click of a button on that dialog. At the moment the timer starts automatically when the dialog is opened.

Regards Malcolm

[Tom Cone Jr]

RE: countdown control

Show us your code, and tell us whether and how you're using the OnTimer event for the form. It may be simply a matter of conditioning the commencement of your loop on the value of a variable. You could set the variable one way when the dialog opens, and set it another when the right button is pushed.

-- tom

[Malcolm Salisbury]

RE: countdown control

Im goin to try this one point at a time

this is for a xdialog script
dim cnt as N
cnt = 1


ui_modeless_dlg_box("{INTERVAL}",""%dlg%
{timer=increment}
{interval=.05}
(progress=50cnt}
"close";
%dlg%,""%code%
if a_dlg_button = "increment" then
cnt = cnt + 1
if cnt = 100 then
cnt = 1
end if
end if
if a_dlg_button = "close" then
ui_modeless_dlg_close("{INTERVAL}")
end if
%code%)

what i woulld like tis to do is stop when it reaches 100 not reset it self to 1 anf for the dialog to stay open so that i can start it up again with another button.

there are some other things i would like to do but lets just start here please

Malcolm