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Timed events
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From
10/01/2005 16:29:57
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Title:
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 7
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00975807
Message ID:
00975819
Views:
15
The Timer interval is not specified in minutes, but in miliseconds. Just calculate the next time minus the current time (in seconds), and multiply by 1000, to set the appropriate .Interval.

>I'm building a timeclock buzzer application. At certain times during the day buzzer.wav plays. So I need to figure out how to fire off these events. The times I want buzzer.wav to play is something like...
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>05:59
>06:00
>11:29
>11:30
>14:29
>14:30
>
>
>I can use a timer and compare the system time but I need the timer interval to be less than 1 minute (as you can see above) and that could cause the buzzer to play multiple times within that time slot. Any ideas?
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