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newbie ques.. Timers -

i made 5 buttons
i want the 5th button, when clicked, to click on button 1, and after 5 seconds, click on button 2.. after 5 more sec to click on button 3, then after 5 more secs button 4

please show me the code
thanks

 

sequrity of SQL -
when VB6 programming with SQL........... Ques-1. Is ".mdb" must need with ADO? Ques-2. if i made a application with ADO, & linked with a .mdb, then ..... _____ (Ques-2a.) then that SQL database is unsecured? (because a mdb file is not secured). am i right? _____ (

newbie ques.. Timers -
i made 5 buttons i want the 5th button, when clicked, to click on button 1, and after 5 seconds, click on button 2.. after 5 more sec to click on button 3, then after 5 more secs button 4 please show me the code thanks

sleep problem -
I am stuck... I am a newbie to vb.. the applicaiton i am working on has 3 timers in it. the timers are for three different animation in vbform..(loading imagebox with different images at a time interval of 50 ms.). I need a delay of 6 secs in the middle of the program execution...if i

Timers, Timers, TIMERS! -
I really hate the built-in VB timers. I'm doing some games in VB, and the timers really don't work that well. Even if I put in 20, it acts the same as if I had put in 50! (in the INTERVAL). So, does anybody know where I could get a high-resolution timer (one that reads EVERY second?)

LET's GET sum properties - newbie ques -
hi all! can neone plz tell me the correct usage of Let & Get property n what r they meant for?? plz explain it with a little example of addition if dont mind. thnx

Newbie Ques on Reusable code -
Is there a way that I can store often used code in Visual Basic 6.0? I can do it in other programs with snippet features but I haven't figured out how to do it in VB6. Thanks very much.

Newbie Question.. systime workin it. -
what i need to have happen is have a function(or whatever else) called at 15 and 45 after the hour. I have got it to work on the concept of two timers running off of eachother every 30 minutes. my problem is when the user opens the form it starts the proccess of the two timers no matte

help me with a tough maths question -
Solve this question in functions which seems to be diifficult? the question is if g(x) is a polynomial satisfying g(x)g(y)=g(x)+g(y)+g(xy) - 2 for all real x and y, and g(2)=5 then find g(3). the answer is 10 please tell me how to do this ques. My sir told me that th

now i have timer problems :>( -
well after all the help i got everthing was working fine up until i used timers to trigger events. now the funny thing is it worked the first time i ran it but now it wont no matter what i do. i have 3 timers set to be triggers waiting for file activity in 3 specific directories.

Timers for a game -
I am currently trying to make a game in DirectX, but I was just wondering if there was anything better then using timers, because i thought I read before that Timers weren't really good for games.

Help sycronizing 2 Timers -
i have a program that is intercepting data between 2 hardware devices. I have 2 timers that are there to time the messeges sent too and throw. But they are not placeing the data in the correct order. IS there some way to make sure both timers start out sycronized and stay that

Windows Service Problems -
Currently i am building a windows service. 1. How to make a windows service that its icon display on the task bar? 2. How to show a form when we click the icon? 3. I have problem when starting the windows service, if the service have a windows component such as notifyicon, timers e

For help with timers - Your questions are answered -
I have written a program for those who ask about timers. This program should dis-spell the illusions some have about timers. Such as don't use DoEvents, or that their events happen on the scheduled interval set on the timer in all cases. Look at the project and you will see exactly

It says newbie i dont like being a newbie -
LOL hi all. By my name and the amount of posts it says i'm a newbie. How to i get not to be a newbie lol i hate being a newbie (even though i am a newbie to this forum and vb) but still i want to not be one :P

hmmm.....24 hour timers -
Hey guys, been playing with timers and they are exacly what my application needs, however, is there a "trick" to setting a timer to go off after a day (ie 86,400,000 ms). Or do I must a series of timers to do that? Thanks guys, Brock

Device Context, Threads, and Atoms -
Ques 1: Is each device context considered to be a separate thread? For example if I use the ScreenDc and a PicBox Dc will I have two separate threads? Also if I use CreateCompatibleDC will I generate a separate thread from the original DC? Ques 2: Can someone expl

Synchronising timers -
I have 2 timers on a form tmr1 and tmr2, is there any way i can synchronise these two timers so that every 30th tick from tmr1, tmr2 ticks???

Timers in Windows CE -
I'm developing an app for Windows CE using VB.NET. I'm having problems with timers running under Windows CE (I'm using a Dell Axim for testing), as they are much slower than real time...about 3-4 times slower. Can anyone shed some light on why this would be happening? Are there

Timers in .NET -
Hi, have a couple of questions about timers in .NET that I would be pleased if someone could help me explain. 1. Can I use windows.forms.timer even in classes, as long it's a windows application I develop and not an windows service. Or can I just use this type of timer on a form?,

Reliability of Timers -
I am concerned about the vulnerability of timers to being delayed by background processing. (In the mid nineties, writing real-time programs in C under DOS, we found that interrupts could be held at bay for up to a third of a second, occasionally, due to background disk operations. T

Self interaction with timers, etc -
Here's a question. Well, actually two. (actually, 4?) 1) When I run a program with a timer in the IDE, showing a modal form like a message box doesn't allow the timer to create events. But when I compile it, it does. Is there anyway to get the IDE version to act like the compiled ve

Counting down -
I am trying to design a program which will launch another program, and perform a countdown while it is running. I have it all set up in timers, and the counting down works great by itself, but when the other program is launched, it constantly tries to start the program on every second

How to use Timers in VB5 -
I am creating a program, but there's one problem. I don't know how to use Timers in Visual Basic 5 ... Thnx for your help Apocalypse

timers are the gone forever -
hey i was wondering ive been looking through thread after thread fo rsome info on timers but i dont seem to find any why is this. i know about gettickcount and other apis but sometimes i dont need to use the apis the regular vb will do just fine does any one use regular timers here.

[2008] Timers & Threads -
Hi all, Long story short, I have tried using a standard Timer and a Timers.Timer to update a label with the time. This bit works fine. But when I want to run another procedure from a class in another thread to do some database work, the timers seem to take control and don't allow

"Safe" number of timers -
Hi all, What would be considered a safe maximum for the number of simultaneously active timers in a program? My program is up to something like 6 timers on one form, all doing their thing... at what point might my program crash with "timer fatigue"? BTW, what is the maximu

Several timers... how to control one of them -
Hello to all, in my project i have multi timers ( System.Threading.timer ), eath timer is associated to a jobId. I need to stop one of the timers, i know the jobID. The problem. How do i know the timer associated to the job X. I keep the jobId and the timerId ( i think tha

[2005] quick messagebox question -
Hi guys, I have a message box, and 2 timers that control various things. Now when the user presses "i" on the keyboard i need the message box to display information about certain images that are currently on the screen. Now these images change every 5 seconds using one of th

Timers MAhh -
Can someone explain the basics of timers i dont have a clue? say i wanted a msgbox after 5 seconds of the program start what would the code be?

Throw the timers away -
I had it already about this in this thread http://forums.vb-world.net/showthrea...threadid=33198 but after trying everything and more with timers I found out timers aren't the best way to play a wav file with exactly the same time between each 'beat'. Does somebody another way than u

Efficiency of TIMERS -
Hi, I am working on application in which my requirements include, 1. Push some data from one table to another table continuously which i'm doing through timer. 2. A reminder application for which reminder nos have to be displayed which is being done through timer. 3. Chat appli

2 timers -
ok i have two timers going. but when the second one begins i want it to disable the other, how would i do that?

Control arrays have only one dimension =( -
In my mud game (BeMUD if anyone remembers) the NPCs characters are referred as two-dimensional array (i.e Npc(1,3).Name="Orc")). Now I want to create timers array especially for the NPCs (Each NPC should have a private timer). However I can make the timers array only with one

Using a lot of timers -
hi all.. I need to do 35 things every second, let's say for example updating a label's caption every second. Which is better between these two options: 1. Using 35 timers, each timer handles each label (using array of the timers to shorten the code) 2. Using 1 timer and update all

Question on Timers -
Is it possible to have two forms both with their own timers, running at the same time, that make distinct DB and Internet connections via Inet Control? I am trying this and it seems like one always hangs up and I am wondering if this is more of a trheading issue and if this is even po

Desperate need of help with timers -
I have tried to experiment with timers on my own with learning the timers and have had no success. Maybe someone here can post some code to help me out. Here's what I am trying to do...I have a text box on my form that is supposed to be a "play-by-play" box for a sports si

[2005] using the progress bar -
how does this exactly work. i am trying to transfer a file and once the transferation and during this period it should show the progress on the bar. do i need to use timers? im not sure, im still a newbie on this topic. thanku

4 SetTimers yields two timers -
I'm sorry. I'm supposed to answer and not ask questions. I'm getting to be way unlike the old Escaflowne that I've once been... SetTimer is getting on my nerves. I have four timers on a form and at least two of them just stops running without any KillTimers being called. Why?

blinking labels -
Is there a way to make labels blink without using timers? I don't want timers to slow down processing of more critical information. Thanks.

Timers in VB -
How do I use timers in VB? For example, how could I start a timer, stop it, reset it and start again? A simple question I know but an important one for me.