[tj.dinner.619]

hey. i have made a timer to countdown in visual basics 6.0 , but i need it stop the game i made when the countdown is finished. This is Part of an assignment .

P.S. I am not a computer guy.

[born2c0de]

What does the timer do?
Is it like a Countdown Timer which shuts or gives an alarm on ZERO?

Keep a global variable and keep incrementing or decrementing it in the Timer Subroutine and disable the timer when it reaches ZERO.
It should work out to be something like this:

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
	  g_count = g_count - 1
	  ' Assuming g_count is a global variable
	  if g_count = 0 then timer1.enabled = false
End Sub

Since you said you're not a computer guy, I'm not exactly sure whether my post will be understood by you (global variables etc.).

If you have any queries, feel free to post again.

[born2c0de]

One more thing...have you made an attempt to solve this assignment?

If so then please post whatever you have written as we can then correct you and tell you where you went wrong.

[William_Wilson]

VB is probably the best language for beginners in computers/programming as it is mostly drag and drop and the graphics are taken care of
It is likely a slimple logic error, which could be resolved once the code is posted.

[born2c0de]

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VB is probably the best language for beginners in computers/programming as it is mostly drag and drop and the graphics are taken care of

I'd say the same thing...only without the word 'probably'

[Keelan]

born2c0de, on 25 May, 2006 - 01:04 AM, said:

What does the timer do?
Is it like a Countdown Timer which shuts or gives an alarm on ZERO?

Keep a global variable and keep incrementing or decrementing it in the Timer Subroutine and disable the timer when it reaches ZERO.
It should work out to be something like this:

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
	  g_count = g_count - 1
	  ' Assuming g_count is a global variable
	  if g_count = 0 then timer1.enabled = false
End Sub

Since you said you're not a computer guy, I'm not exactly sure whether my post will be understood by you (global variables etc.).

If you have any queries, feel free to post again.

This code doesn't work for me, it does it once then stops. If I make my variable = 30 then it will subtract once, when I want it to count down to 0

[Zhalix]

Could you post the code you have?

Your problem will be solved much more quickly if we can see the code that is causing problems.