Winforms Timer for Dummies

Question

I\'m trying to get a timer to tick once a second in a winform, when I look for advice on how to do this I find loads of stuff about threads. Well I don\'t care about threads

Answer 1

You don't need threading if you use the winforms' timer.

Drop a Timer control on your page, name it "timer" and paste the following code:

public MainForm()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    timer.Interval = 1000;
    timer.Start();

    timeLeft = 60;
    timer.Tick += Timer_Tick;

    // start things
    label1.Hide();
    button1.Hide();
    timer.Start();

}

public void Timer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    timeLeft--;

    if (timeLeft <= 0) {
        timer.Stop();
        label1.Show();
        button1.Show();
    }
}

I suppose if you've come from a webby background, Events-driven programming is probably the thing you need to get start reading about if you want to understand how stuff on the desktops are programmed.