Vb.net count down timer

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i want to create a count down timer were when the program has reached 3:52 mins of running it will open up a new form

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i havent tried anything yet and i cant find anything on the internet

Posted 16-Nov-17 11:38am

Member 13508572

Updated 17-Nov-17 2:59am

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CHill60 16-Nov-17 19:01pm

"i havent tried anything yet and i cant find anything on the internet" ...
Try writing some code. If you want to learn then you have to do it for yourself. Stop looking for answers on the internet and learn to do it for yourself! Stretch the world, don't just echo it

Member 13508572 18-Nov-17 7:47am

im new to programming and i needed to start somewhere, and what i did end up programming still wasn't working...

A_Griffin 16-Nov-17 19:01pm

Use the standard timer control

Karthik_Mahalingam 16-Nov-17 22:50pm

google "vb.net countdown timer"

Ralf Meier 17-Nov-17 3:06am

Basicly I agree with CHill.
"I haven't tried anything" is no approach for anything.
"there is nothing to be found in the Internet" - I can't believe it ...
But to your project :
How do you think how you could find out when a given time is ellapsed ? How could it be calculated ? Try to use some basic mathematics ...

Member 13508572 18-Nov-17 7:48am

everything i did find on the internet didnt work or wasnt what i was looking for either

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Lockwood · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-17T02:59:00

Solution 1

VB

Private WithEvents ICantBeBotheredToGoogleThis As New Timer

Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    ICantBeBotheredToGoogleThis.Interval = 232000
    ICantBeBotheredToGoogleThis.Start()
End Sub

Private Sub ICantBeBotheredToGoogleThis_Tick(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles ICantBeBotheredToGoogleThis.Tick
    Dim IAmALazyCoder As New Form2
    IAmALazyCoder.ShowDialog()
End Sub

Posted 17-Nov-17 2:59am

Lockwood

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Graeme_Grant 17-Nov-17 9:04am

LMAO!

Lockwood 17-Nov-17 9:07am

I'm guessing this is what OP was after.
A 3:52 delay to displaying Form1 would seem a bit strange.

Member 13508572 18-Nov-17 7:49am

meant to be a intro of a game that i'm making, the video is 3;52 and once that timer has elapsed it will move to form2 (the main menu) also thanks for the code but even with this it didn't work as it just froze the video i was trying to play, that is why everything i found on the internet didn't work.

Lockwood 18-Nov-17 8:08am

Wow.

One, that's long intro video.
Two, tie the event in to video events, not a timer.

Ralf Meier 18-Nov-17 10:22am

The best way to get a Solution allways is :
- try to writen down what you want to do and how it show work
- try to code it
-> if your code not work well or not as you want : post it and explain your problem

Member 13508572 18-Nov-17 12:08pm

can you make it so it only counts to 10000 once, i tried to do

when count = 10000 then
count.stop

but this just gave me a syntax error

Lockwood 18-Nov-17 13:20pm

Yeah... That's really not how it works.

You need to use Raif's approach. Stop and think about where you are, where you want to be and how you want to get there.

Member 13508572 18-Nov-17 13:25pm

i dont think you really understand but i started programming a week ago, i have little knowledge of code and the way i learn is by asking questions and the internet, i cant try to code it if i dont know little code. i know exactly what i want to do but i just have a knowledge limitation.

Lockwood 18-Nov-17 15:11pm

I can fully understand that you're new to this - everyone started somewhere.

However, it seems to me like you are trying to run before you can walk. If you get all of the information spoonfed to you then you will tend not to get as much understanding of the fundamental concepts as if you do some research and then apply that research to your problem.

A case in point would be the sample I gave you earlier (which I now realise has a small bug in it). It creates a timer that runs after 232,000 millisecond (or 3 minutes 52 seconds) and then fires an event. If we modified that code to make something occur after it had been called 10,000 times, that event would fire after almost 27 days!

There are a lot of good books and tutorials out there, but you do need to respect that you are currently inexperienced and will need to look at the basics first and then move on from there.

I would recommend as a starter that you look up these topics:
1: Conditional flow (ie Select Case, If)
2: Iterations/loops (Do While, Do Until, For/Next)
3: Variable scope (Private, Public), also look up Static

These will help you in this task and are essential knowledge for pretty much any subsequent task

Member 13508572 18-Nov-17 16:01pm

thanks for understanding, i already the basics for programming, my first program was a password checker and generator which turned out to work and with the basics that you listed above i would have never got to even starting the project, im just looking into programming games in the future as i love creating new things.