Using timer as Alarm clock

[OlszanskiA]

I am trying to set up a simple form where I click a button and 1 hour later
it tells me time is up. I copied the code from MS Access VB help, but I get
the error message regarding the line Start = Timer: "Compile Error: Expected
Variable or Procedure, not Project"

Can you assit me. I've tried may different ways to no avail.
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The code:
Private Sub Alarm_Click()

Dim PauseTime, Start, Finish, TotalTime
If (MsgBox("Press Yes to pause for 5 seconds", 4)) = vbYes Then
PauseTime = 5 ' Set duration.
Start = Timer ' Set start time.
Do While Timer < Start + PauseTime
DoEvents ' Yield to other processes.
Loop
Finish = Timer ' Set end time.
TotalTime = Finish - Start ' Calculate total time.
MsgBox "Paused for " & TotalTime & " seconds"
Else
End
End If

End Sub

 

[Sergey Poberezovskiy]

On a click of you button set up Form's TimerInterval property to 3,600,000 =
60min*60sec*1000ms, and then on your Timer event popup a MsgBox with the
alarm message and re-set the TimerInterval property to 0.

HTH

 

['69 Camaro]

Hi.

Can you assit me.

Sure. Open the VB Editor (press <ALT><F11>), and select the Tools -> Timer
Properties... menu item to open the Timer - Project Properties dialog window.
Change the project name from Timer to TimerDB (or choose another name other
than a Reserved word or is already in use elsewhere). Select the "OK" button
to close the dialog window, then compile the code again.

The reason you're running into this problem is that this example code is
trying to use the form's Timer (a Reserved word) event that your database
application is also using as the project name, Timer. Never use Reserved
words for your identifiers, or you'll run into bugs that are difficult -- and
often very time-consuming -- to track down and fix.

For lists of the Reserved words to avoid, please see the following Web pages:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?id=321266

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=286335

HTH.
Gunny

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[OlszanskiA]

Perfect. I thought I might have used a reserved word, but when I changed my
forms name and my database name, it still didn't work. Your fix was so easy!
Thank you too for the list of reserved words.

 

['69 Camaro]

You're welcome! Glad it helped.

Gunny

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