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Is there a maximum timer?
« on: May 24, 2011, 07:33:53 PM »
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.
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Re: Is there a maximum timer?
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2011, 12:52:18 AM »
I don't know, why don't ya code one and tell us when it ticks?
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Re: Is there a maximum timer?
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2011, 08:30:48 AM »
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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.


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Re: Is there a maximum timer?
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2011, 08:44:20 AM »
Well I just tried 33000 and it worked, so maybe I'll try 360000 and come back in an hour and see what happens.
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Re: Is there a maximum timer?
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2011, 09:08:30 AM »
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.
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Re: Is there a maximum timer?
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2011, 05:40:12 PM »
What happens if you nest an ON KEYDOWN structure within a TIMER event incorporating a negative trigger value? Now this I gotta see...
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Re: Is there a maximum timer?
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2011, 06:42:51 PM »
Inverted blackhole... :o
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Re: Is there a maximum timer?
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2011, 04:02:53 PM »
Turns out there's a maximum for a variable too, so my other idea didn't work either...
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Re: Is there a maximum timer?
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2011, 05:52:20 PM »
Keep your number as a string. Strings can be up to 255 characters. That's a long number...
"1254689756321159876453159845623789512365942158963215789563215125468975632115987645315984562378951236594215896321578956321512546897563211598764531598456237895123659421589632157895632151254689756321159876453159845623789512365942158963215789563215845623197658431"
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Re: Is there a maximum timer?
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2011, 06:27:35 PM »
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Keep your number as a string. Strings can be up to 255 characters. That's a long number...
"1254689756321159876453159845623789512365942158963215789563215125468975632115987645315984562378951236594215896321578956321512546897563211598764531598456237895123659421589632157895632151254689756321159876453159845623789512365942158963215789563215845623197658431"

Fail.
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Re: Is there a maximum timer?
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2011, 07:53:42 PM »
But if you do a string$ = string$ - 1 wont it take away the character of one?
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Re: Is there a maximum timer?
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2011, 10:22:03 PM »
You'd have to do some advanced string manipulation to get it to calculate right.

Fail? Seemed more like a clever win to me. ;)
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