Timer pause/resume

[jrwinterburn]

Hi guys,

Sadly, a newbie question for you! I've just started playing with the timer in vb.net and am trying to use a start/pause/resume button to start/pause/resume a progress bar I am using. I can make it start and stop the progress bar (so it appears to pause halfway through for example) but when I click start again, it starts from the beginning, obviously.

It seems the timer control does not have a pause() or resume(). I wish to be able to get the progress bar to continue from where it paused. Additionally, I want it to loop - should the progress bar get to the end before being paused, it shoud begin again.

Any help would be appreciated as I'm stuck here!

Thanks.

Jon

 

[ca8msm]

You don't need a pause on the timer as that is simply the sam as Stop. What you should do is create a variable that holds the value of the progress bar. When the timer fires, it increments this value and updates the progress bar to this value. Stopping the timer (i.e. your pause button) will mean that the value simply remains the same and therefore "pauses" the progress bar.

As for the loop, once the value gets to the highest value that the progress bar accepts, simpyl reset the conter to 0.


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[jrwinterburn]

Thanks - that advice helped me crack it in the end!