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On Saturday 10 May 2003 7:16 pm, Wirt Atmar wrote:
> Brice asks:
> >  I wanted to know if anyone had an idea about where I could download
> >  a stopwatch or timer which would run on a PC.
> >
> >  Freeware preferred
>
> This is such a simple thing to write in Visual Basic that I took 15 minutes
> out and wrote a stopwatch.

I've been away all weekend, and so as I was catching up that was my thought as
well: form w/1 button, one text field, and a timer. [Mind you, I haven't
actually downloaded or seen the timer Wirt writes about, so his
implementation may differ] essentially the "start/stop" button merely enables
or disables the timer object.  The timer object is pre-set with a delay
[measured in milliseconds] and has an "on-timer" event that merely increments
the numeric value of the text field [initially set to "0"]  [with some
additional logic, the start/stop button could act as a "clear" button as
well...]

In a nutshell, that is the entire program.  The additional features Brice
clamored for in the follow up are left "as an excersice to the reader" ;)

[...]
> It requires no installation.

courtesy of the fact MS pre-loads your system with the required libraries
[most likely "vbrun32.dll" or similar]

[...] I set the resolution of the stopwatch to
> hundredths of a second, although that could be extended to thousandths and
> still likely be accurate.

even though the minimum resolution of the "timer" object in various languages
is "one millisecond", older systems had as a minimum physical "timer
interrupt" resolution something on the order of 18.2 ms -- just something to
consider... ;)
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