VB5 how do you reset a timer to 0?

[vickyx]

Hi, I am making a programme where I use a timer, I have 2 command buttons, one starting the timer, another stopping the timer, currently this works. But when i press the comand button starting the timer I want to have it reset to 0 because at the moment it carries on from where it left off when I pressed stop. I am not amazing at VB so all my code is simple and I don't know how to reset the timer to 0 before it starts off counting again.
Please hope you can help!!
Thanks

[SCBWV]

Try resetting the Interval property.

[vickyx]

But that just seems to stop the timer altogether! Because isn't the interval proptery when on the timer the milliseconds between when the timer increases the time by a prespecified amount, or do i have that wrong?

[jbennet]

timer.value = 0 ?

[SCBWV]

There is no Value property in a VB 6 timer.

The Interval property specifies the number of milliseconds between calls to a Timer control's Timer event. For example, if set to 10, the Timer1.Timer event will exceute every 10 milliseconds. Disabling a Timer control by setting Enabled to False cancels the countdown set up by the control's Interval property.

I would try setting the Interval property and the Enabled property to True in the code for your Start button, and set these to 0 and False in your Stop button. According to Microsoft, "When a Timer control is enabled, its countdown always starts from the value of its Interval property setting."

[vickyx]

ok, thanks it's working!

[debasisdas]

You simply need to enable and disable the timer.

[vickyx]

if you just enable and disable to timer it carries on counting from the ime it got disabled at , eg if it got disabled at 1.4 and then i enabled it again it would count 1.5, 1.6 etc

[debasisdas]

You need to maintain some counter.