mattireland

Hi,

I used to have this really good way of 'refreshing' a data value continuously e.g. if x + y = z but x and y were constantly changing then this equation would need to be continually redone. Except I've forgotten it. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Matt. I

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Jimbo

So, do you mean that z needs to be recalculated every time it's accessed? You could make it a readonly property, where the get is just to return x+y. Or am I misunderstanding somehow?

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Sane

Is the data value that's constantly changing a mathematical statement? Is it the result of a function call? Could be anything at all?

Or just plain x+y?

mattireland

Sorry for being unclear. I was using x + y = z as a bad example.

Suppose z was the temperature of the CPU or something. Could I make it so it was constantly updating?

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Sane

Oh. Well in around 5 lines of code or less, I suspect you can write a function called "showCpuTemperature", that updates the value of the display every time it's called with the most recent CPU Temperature.

Then set a timer event for that function to execute every 500ms or so. The specifics of how to do this in Visual Basic .NET are unknown to me, but this is a common tool in GUI programming and thus should be fairly simple to research.