[dingdong-man]

again , in my assignment, i'm required to move objects within 5 seconds in a certain places. so everysecond during the 5 second they are movin' in an exact places. is it correct to do this by making the 'select case' conditional for timer1.interval ??

Select Case Timer1.Interval
Case 1000
object.Left = 60
object.Top = 100
Case 2000
object.Left = 80
object.Top = 120
Case 3000
object.Left = 100
object.Top = 140
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and so on....

or is there any other better idea? because this actually make the program too long to look at.

thanks...

[The Future]

If I understand what you're doing, you want to move an object gradually every second over a 5 second period in the same linear direction. If so, using a Select Case on the Interval property of the Timer object is not the going to work. The interval is constant and doesn't change.

I would suggesting setting the interval to 1000 (which is in milliseconds, equalling 1 second), and then every time the timer executes, add code to increase the Object's Left property by 20 and Top property by 25 or whatever you would like to do.

If I misunderstood your question, could you please rephrase it?

[dingdong-man]

thnx for your comment, but actually it doesn't need to be in linear direction, so adding the "left" properties to the object might not be used permanently.

i made some changes in the method, but it seems to be more complicated than before.

look... i declare another variable, called 'object counter'
and i've set the timer interval to 1000, and i have it like this:

Timer1_Tick
Dim object_counter As Integer
Timer1.Interval = 1000
object_counter += 1

Select Case object_counter
Case 1
object.Left = 60
object.Top = 100
Case 2
object.Left = 80
object.Top = 120
Case 3
object.Left = 100
object.Top = 140

but do you guys think it's more complicated than before.... bcoz it's just added another variable and then did the same thing..
if i set the interval to be 5000, why isn't it going to happen? because interval move from 0 to 5000 within 5 seconds right?

please recorrect my understanding if i'm wrong

i can't think any other better....
thnx..

[The Future]

I believe your confusion arises with the Interval property. When you set the property to any number, say 5000 milliseconds, that means that the code in the Timer_tick() method will execute every 5 seconds. That's all. To the best of my knowledge, the interval is not stored in a variable that counts up to 5000 to back from 0 to 5000 again.