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Bogdan
Bogdan

Reputation: 63

Timer_tick in c#

How can I set my timer to work with seconds? When I use the timer from toolbox, without any changes it starts working with another time unit.
I will be grateful for any help which you can give me.

I have something like this: 

t = 0; 
timer1.Start(); 
if (t == 600) 
    timer1.Stop();

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2645

Answers (4)

ABH
ABH

Reputation: 3439

Timer.Interval property takes the value in milliseconds. You should multiply your valued to 1000 to set the interval to seconds.

aTimer.Interval = 1*1000; // 1 second interval
aTimer.Interval = 2*1000; // 2 seconds interval

Edit:

If I understood correctly, you should register Timer.Tick event like

aTimer.Tick += new EventHandler(TimerEventProcessor);

and check the value of t in its event handler. If t == 600 then you can stop the timer

private static void TimerEventProcessor(Object myObject, EventArgs myEventArgs)
{
    ...
    t++;
    if(t == 600)
       aTimer.Stop();
}

Upvotes: 3

cubski
cubski

Reputation: 3248

The timer uses milliseconds as unit of time, you can do computation to fit your needs. In this case you want to delay in seconds, you can do something like:

int secondsInterval = 5;
timer.Interval = secondsInterval * 1000;

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

Loci
Loci

Reputation: 327

EDIT Use timer.interval = 1000 * n; where n is the number of seconds between the ticks.

Upvotes: 3

Anthony Shaw
Anthony Shaw

Reputation: 8166

multiply the number of seconds you wish by 1000, it uses milliseconds out of the box

Upvotes: 2

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