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Newcomers DBPro Corner / time delay help

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Heckno
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Posted: 17th Jul 2005 13:15
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Two hours ago my code looked great (not working correctly but at least comprehendable), now it's fubar....

I am trying to decrease and/or increase a variable and manipulate the speed at which the variable changes...

example every 2 seconds the variable decreases by x amount etc...

wait & sleep are useless and repeat until is wreaking havoc on my gui...any help would be appreciated....
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Leeorg
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Posted: 17th Jul 2005 14:22
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If your program runs from a central Sub-Routine - you could try this:

All of the above is customisable to your needs, I assume a key-input is needed for altering the CHANGE varible. You can ditch the wait & sleep commands.
For finer control you could CHANGE to CHANGE# so you can increase/decrease by a value which is less then one
Hope this is of use!
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Heckno
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Posted: 17th Jul 2005 15:43
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hey thanks Leeorg...

not quite what i needed for this particular application but it works for another part of my program...Kudos my friend saved me from posting again...
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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 17th Jul 2005 15:58
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What about something like this? Every 2 secs the variable is increased by the value of x (or 1)



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HowDo
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Posted: 17th Jul 2005 18:46
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Here's another one, see if you can you use it.

if val(mid$(str$(timer()),6))>8
rem do something
endif

looks at the timer and checks if a number XXXXXX as reached 8 if it has do something

this it how i made a blink cursor.


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Heckno
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Posted: 18th Jul 2005 17:21
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I ended up with something very similar to Lost's version, but I am curious to try yours Howdo....

thanks all
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James Morgan
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Posted: 19th Jul 2005 05:19
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Howdo, I'v never seen it done that way before! Heckno, the time increments by 1000 every second. I think what howdo is trying to do is make it look flashy! Rather than checking if the actual number as incremented by 2000 (2 seconds) it conversts the variable into a string and checks to see if the variable which used to be 6 has now gone into 8. The problem with that code is as timer keeps incrementing, you need to find the 4th from last number, convert that into the screen. It wont always be the 6th character. In my opinion its just a lot easier to check the actual variable rather than converting it. Interesting way of coding tho!

J

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