slow motioned display of textbox' string

[mil1234]

Hi guys.This is my first thread in here.Can u please tell me what i can use as i 'm generating around 400 characters at random in a textbox.Now i want that when these are being generated each character go 1 by 1 in slow motion in the textbox??and not generate random and they go as a chunk in the textbox.thanks

 

[Solitaire]

You can use a timer control with the interval set to 100:

	Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
		Timer1.Enabled = True
	End Sub

	Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
		Static counter As Integer
		counter += 1
		If counter = 400 Then
			Timer1.Enabled = False
		End If
		Dim randvar As New Random()
		Dim randchar As String
		randchar = Chr(randvar.Next(65, 123))
		TextBox1.Text &= randchar
	End Sub

 

[JohnH]

I will suggest following this advice also:

To improve performance, create one Random to generate many random numbers over time, instead of repeatedly creating a new Random to generate one random number.

They are not talking about the performance speed of the code here, but how well the random distribution produced will be.

 

[mil1234]

slow motion dispaly

You can use a timer control with the interval set to 100:

	Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
		Timer1.Enabled = True
	End Sub

	Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
		Static counter As Integer
		counter += 1
		If counter = 400 Then
			Timer1.Enabled = False
		End If
		Dim randvar As New Random()
		Dim randchar As String
		randchar = Chr(randvar.Next(65, 123))
		TextBox1.Text &= randchar
	End Sub

thanks a lt solitaire plus john i did what i needed with your help