Glad it helped! Yes they do belong on forms - this is generally great for most cases, though sometimes it would be cool to have a control, like you say!
Great video, thanks. So I'm curious about how the timer actually runs. If you had a variable, say, incrementing 1 to 10 in the form_timer procedure section, would it increment the entire counter to 10 almost instantaneously at the speed of the processor or does the code know to run at one cycle at a time, at the speed of the interval (say 1 second each) and so the whole thing would take 10 seconds? That's the issue I'm having. Even though the interval is set to 1000, it's finishing the counter instantaneously.
Sounds like you got it figured! Timers can be a mind-bender.. especially when you have other events firing in your app in between timer events etc. The timer can be thrown off and not be exact due to these factors.
Thanks Sean, great video. I was looking for a timer control then realised there wasn't an actual control. :) Your video really helped me out, thanks!
Glad it helped! Yes they do belong on forms - this is generally great for most cases, though sometimes it would be cool to have a control, like you say!
Smart feature 👍 Thanks a lot!
My pleasure!
Great video, thanks. So I'm curious about how the timer actually runs. If you had a variable, say, incrementing 1 to 10 in the form_timer procedure section, would it increment the entire counter to 10 almost instantaneously at the speed of the processor or does the code know to run at one cycle at a time, at the speed of the interval (say 1 second each) and so the whole thing would take 10 seconds? That's the issue I'm having. Even though the interval is set to 1000, it's finishing the counter instantaneously.
Nevermind. For some reason a "do until" loop does not respect the timer, but an If statement does. So weird.
Sounds like you got it figured! Timers can be a mind-bender.. especially when you have other events firing in your app in between timer events etc. The timer can be thrown off and not be exact due to these factors.
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Thanks!