Well, as with most things, there's quite a number of ways to do that.
The first one that popped to mind for me is to use a timer. Drop a new
timer into your form area, select it and set the Period to something
that suits you. I found the 100 worked pretty well. That's in ms, if I'm
not mistaken, so the timer's action will fire every 100th of a second.
To see the output add a static text box, then go to the code edit view
and select the Action for the timer. In there, pop in this:
dim the_time As Date
the_time = new Date
StaticText1.Text = the_time.LongDate + " " + CStr(the_time.Hour) + ":"
+ CStr(the_time.Minute) + ":" + CStr(the_time.Second)
Run it and you should see the text updating.
If you need to constantly poll, you could use a thread and loop
approach, but that'd likely be overkill.
Hope that helped,
Fargo
Jeffrey Ellis wrote:
Can someone tell me how to have an app constantly checking the system for
the current date/time?
Thanks :)
All My Best,
Jeffrey
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