7 replies to this topic

[mitchel0]

hey guys, i need help with writing a timers current time to a string, then to display the string. i tried

dis.tostring()

and then but i cannont get the timer to show the countdown, but i cannot :( if you guys could help, id love it!

[gregwarner]

I don't believe you can get the time elapsed from a Timer object, as that's not what it's for, but rather for the execution of some code at regular intervals. If you need to know how much time has elapsed, you can have your timer callback function increment a variable each time it is called, and multiply that number by the timer's interval property to get the time elapsed.

Incidentally, which timer are you referring to? System.Threading.Timer or System.Timers.Timer?

[mitchel0]

hmm, ok then how could i show how much time until something happens then?

[gregwarner]

Same thing, but in reverse. Keep a variable of the amount of time you want to wait until an event happens. In the timer's callback method, subtract a certain amount from that variable, and check it to see if it is less than or equal to zero. If it is, then your time has expired and you can have it do something else.

[mitchel0]

hmmm seems easy enough, but how do i actually display on the gui the time left? and im using whatever timer you get when you drag one onto the form. thanks!

[Tonchi]

you can display it in textbox...just write the code to display number on textbox every time after timer gets decrement

[gregwarner]

// Assuming you called your decrement variable "time_left"

// and your text box TextBox1.

TextBox1.Text = time_left.ToString();

[mitchel0]

thansk you a lot!