timer

[Geno]

Hello
I am new at Access and I need to create an easy to use timer. T be honest I
could even have this in Excel, but Access is better and more idiot proof.
We turn off slot machines for our Highrollers for a period of 1, 2, 3, 4
hours.
What I wanted to see would be a checkbox or other form object to select for
any of the afore mentioned amounts of time.... when reaches zero we would
then turn the machine back on if the guest was not back to play. I know this
is kind of involved and needs to accomodate about 6 entries at any given
time....if someone could get me started i could duplicate the code for all
subsequent entries.
Thank You in advance

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

Access does not use a Timer control as in VB, which may be better suited for
this purpose. But you can do it in Access if you wish. Access uses a Timer
Event for the form, so you can set the the form to display on (or off) a
message, at any interval within a day. It sets in milliseconds, so a setting
of 5000 = 5 seconds. A stopwatch example is at:

http://www.datastrat.com/Download/StopWatch2K.zip

Which should be the code you need to get you started.

 

[Geno]

Arvin
Thank you for the response and the very useful tool...now I can start
building and stop stressing. Again thanks.
Geno