timer count down / up

[hisham]

who can i creat a label or text box or whatever on the form to disply a timer that count down or count up based in field in the table its data tipe is date/time.
Thanks in advance

 

[Eradic8or]

Can you elaborate on exactly what you want to do.
I read this as if you want to perhaps add or deduct days/weeks etc.. from a fixed date in the table.

Is this correct?

Eradic8or.

 

[hisham]

Eradic8or

No, I need the text box to display timer that count down/up the time like the clocks i.e. when the user enter the value 02:45 in the date field, then the text box “timer” begin
Count the time down/up like the clock based in this value.
Thanks.

 

[Rohdem]

You can set the 'on timer' event of a form to update a text box every second. Set the timer interval to 1000 (it is in milliseconds so 1000 = 1 second). Then on the 'on timer' event of the form:

me.textbox = me.textbox + 1

Of course this only counts up and down using seconds. To include minutes and hours would require more coding, but the basic idea is use the 'on timer' event of the form.
Mike Rohde
rohdem@marshallengines.com