Is there a maximum timer?

[Zoo]

Is there a maximum to how long a timer can be? I want to make a 7.5 million year long timer, for the fun of it.

[Gan]

I don't know, why don't ya code one and tell us when it ticks?

[Al Staffieri]

Is there a maximum to how long a timer can be?

I don't know, but my guess would be 32767. Since 100 = 1 second, that would be 327.67 seconds or 5.4 minutes.

[Al Staffieri]

Well I just tried 33000 and it worked, so maybe I'll try 360000 and come back in an hour and see what happens.

[Al Staffieri]

OK. With 360000 it still only waits a little more than 5 minutes, so while there's no error, it looks like the most seconds a timer can be is 32767 even if you use a higher number.

[Silverwind]

What happens if you nest an ON KEYDOWN structure within a TIMER event incorporating a negative trigger value? Now this I gotta see...

[Gan]

Inverted blackhole...

[Zoo]

Turns out there's a maximum for a variable too, so my other idea didn't work either...

[Gan]

Keep your number as a string. Strings can be up to 255 characters. That's a long number...
"1254689756321159876453159845623789512365942158963215789563215125468975632115987645315984562378951236594215896321578956321512546897563211598764531598456237895123659421589632157895632151254689756321159876453159845623789512365942158963215789563215845623197658431"

[GMG Mike]

Keep your number as a string. Strings can be up to 255 characters. That's a long number...
"1254689756321159876453159845623789512365942158963215789563215125468975632115987645315984562378951236594215896321578956321512546897563211598764531598456237895123659421589632157895632151254689756321159876453159845623789512365942158963215789563215845623197658431"

Fail.

[Zoo]

But if you do a string$ = string$ - 1 wont it take away the character of one?

[Gan]

You'd have to do some advanced string manipulation to get it to calculate right.

Fail? Seemed more like a clever win to me.