date and timer on a form

[aelhhattabi]

hi,

I'm new to vb.net . I have a problem waking up early. I usually miss my
morning classes. I downloaded some alarm clocks of the internet but most of
them are huge and have extra functionalities. so I decided to make my own
alarm clock. i created my project and made the form. I could display the
time on a textfield but I dont know how to make it increment like a clock
does. would anyone plz start me on the right track ?

thanks

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Add a timer to your form. In the tick event update the textbox
text. Set the timers interval to 1000 and enabled to true.

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick

TextBox1.Text = Now.ToShortTimeString

End Sub

Ken

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hi,

I'm new to vb.net . I have a problem waking up early. I usually miss my
morning classes. I downloaded some alarm clocks of the internet but most
of
them are huge and have extra functionalities. so I decided to make my own
alarm clock. i created my project and made the form. I could display the
time on a textfield but I dont know how to make it increment like a clock
does. would anyone plz start me on the right track ?

thanks

[Cor]

Hi aelhhattabi

There is a greath timer example in the resource kit at GDI

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/default.aspx

And if you have problems installing it

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbr...q/#installvdir

You really will apriciate it seeing it,

But maybe a little bit disapointed about your own clock

:-(

Cor

I'm new to vb.net . I have a problem waking up early. I usually miss my
morning classes. I downloaded some alarm clocks of the internet but most of them are huge and have extra functionalities. so I decided to make my own
alarm clock. i created my project and made the form. I could display the
time on a textfield but I dont know how to make it increment like a clock
does. would anyone plz start me on the right track ?

thanks

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "aelhhattabi" <ae*********@rogers.com> scripsit:

I'm new to vb.net . I have a problem waking up early. I usually miss my
morning classes. I downloaded some alarm clocks of the internet but most of
them are huge and have extra functionalities. so I decided to make my own
alarm clock. i created my project and made the form. I could display the
time on a textfield but I dont know how to make it increment like a clock
does. would anyone plz start me on the right track ?

Add a timer ('System.Windows.Forms.Timer') to your form, set its
'Interval' property to '500' (milliseconds), then doubleclick it to
create a handler for its 'Tick' event. There you can calculate the
difference between a starting date (for example, stored in a private
variable) with the current date/time ('DateTime.Now') and display it by
calling the resulting 'TimeSpan''s 'ToString' method.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>