Timers

[Earl Partridge]

I have 6 labels that I want to display, one at a time, in 15 second intervals. After all 6 have
been displayed, I want to restart, displaying all 6 again, continuously.
Experimenting with just 2 labels and 1 timer, I set the timer Interval accordingly, then I make
Label1.visible False, and Label2.visible True, and this works fine, but I'm a bit confused as to
how to continue with Labels 3 - 6, and how to restart at #1 again.
Earl

[Mike Williams]

"Earl Partridge" <ea*****@pearnet.comwrote in message
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I have 6 labels that I want to display, one at a time, in
15 second intervals. After all 6 have been displayed,
I want to restart, displaying all 6 again, continuously.

If you are using Visual Basic then you can create an array of Labels with
indexes 0 to 5 (or 1 to 6 or whatever you are most comfortable with) and
then in the Timer routine you can set up a Static variable as a counter and
refer to each of the Labels in turn using its Index property, incrementing
the counter each time the Timer routine fires. When you get to the last
Label in the array then simply set your Static variable back to 0 (or 1 or
whatever is the Index of the first Label in the array).

Mike

[Tom Shelton]

On 2008-04-25, Earl Partridge <ea*****@pearnet.comwrote:

I'm afraid I'm out of my league, having done no VB programming for about the
past
12 years... never got into "collections". I may have to try that array
suggestion Mike
Williams suggested.

As for Lloyd's suggestion for list(of label), would that coding go for the
form.load or
in the timer section? Would there be an example somewhere I could view?

Mikes solution is not going to work for you... Simply because there is
no such thing as a control array in VB.NET. He is purposely suggesting
a VB6 solution to a VB.NET problem.

All I can tell you is that Collections are fundamental part of
progamming in any language, so it's a good a time as any to learn them
:)

Queue(Of T) and List(Of T) are located in the System.Collections.Generic
namespace. Which is a good place to start in the documentation...

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Tom Shelton

[Tom Shelton]

On Apr 24, 10:18*pm, "Cor Ligthert[MVP]" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Tom and Loyd

I don't think that a whatever list or collection here has any advantage over
a simple array of labels.

dim timerLabels(5) = {Label1, label2, label3, label4, label5, label6}
older VB versions from this milenium than version 2008
dim timerLabels(5) as label = {Label1, label2, label3, label4, label5,
label6}

This is in my idea here the most effective, because it is just a fixed
array.

(This also written because of the confusion by the OP about a control array,
of course there can be arrays of controls, they don't however have that
limited use as in VB versions from the previous milenium).

Cor

An array works as well. I was leaning towards a queue initially,
simply because of the fact that it can self rotate - no need of the
extra variable to track the index :)

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Tom Shelton

[Mike Williams]

"Tom Shelton" <to*********@YOUKNOWTHEDRILLcomcast.netwrote in message
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Mikes solution is not going to work for you... Simply
because there is no such thing as a control array in
VB.NET. He is purposely suggesting a VB6 solution
to a VB.NET problem.

.. . . in exactly the same way that Bill McCarthy, who has been trolling the
VB6 group for months, purposely suggests vb.net solutions to VB6 questions
on the VB6 group. I've only just started doing it here. McCarthy has been
doing it for months on the VB6 group. Perhaps he might like to sop doing it?

Mike

[Bill McCarthy]

"Mike Williams" <mi***@whiskyandCoke.comwrote in message
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"Tom Shelton" <to*********@YOUKNOWTHEDRILLcomcast.netwrote in message
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>Mikes solution is not going to work for you... Simply
because there is no such thing as a control array in
VB.NET. He is purposely suggesting a VB6 solution
to a VB.NET problem.

. . . in exactly the same way that Bill McCarthy, who has been trolling
the VB6 group for months, purposely suggests vb.net solutions to VB6
questions on the VB6 group. I've only just started doing it here. McCarthy
has been doing it for months on the VB6 group. Perhaps he might like to
sop doing it?

Let it go Mike. Folks here have asked you to stop trolling, and folks in
the Vb6 forum have also told you to stop trying to start flames by your
constant attacks on folks.
As fun as it is to humor you, over the last two weeks you've waged many
personal attacks on me, first claiming I was someone else, then some other
silly conspiracy rant, and most recently your dishonest attack on me because
you say I didn't correct Cor. Your above claim that I provide .net answers
to VB6 questions is in fact a lie, another figment of your imagination
again. I have only provided dotnet answers to dotnet questions.
Oh, and if you think you can bully or intimidate me, you're going to learn a
lesson the hard way. I suggest you talk to folks who know me, as I can
assure you I have been around the VB forums while you were still driving
taxis for a living. The best advice I can give you now Mike, is listen to
the advice everyone is giving you, and desist from any further attacks.

HTH's.

[Bill McCarthy]

"Mike Williams" <mi***@whiskyandCoke.comwrote in message
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"rowe_newsgroups" <ro********@yahoo.comwrote in message
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>Sigh, Please tell me I'm not going to have to treat you
like I used to treat aaron kempf and follow you through
the threads and mark them as trolling attempts?

Yep. That's what it looks like you're going to have to do.

Look Mike, everybody, even your wife has told you to stop.

[Mike Williams]

"Bill McCarthy" <Bi**@N0SPAM.comwrote in message
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Look Mike, everybody, even your wife has told you to stop.

I'll stop when you do. You started this business. Stop trolling the VB6
group.

Mike