Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:39:56 -0600 (CST)

Hi Visual Basic students,

      Guess what happens if the (Name) property of your Timer control
      is set to the default NAME 
                                 Timer1
      but the SUB you typed in   ------
                               is 
                                  PRIVATE SUB tmrTimer_Timer()?
                                              --------
Since there is no 
                  tmrTimer object, NOTHING happens.

     Remember in class when it was stated that the (NAME) property is the
     MOST POPULAR AND MOST COMMON ERROR for beginning Visual Basic.
     
The above situation is a perfect example of that, and at least 5 different
students have had that error.

If the symptoms of your program are that you RUN it and nothing happens,
no flower drawing and no error message or anything, check the (NAME) of
your Private Sub and make sure it matches the (Name) of your Timer object.

If that is correct, then make sure your Timer1 or tmrTimer or whatever
has the .Enabled = True and .Interval = 500 or 1000 or something instead of 0.

Since the (NAME) problem is the most common error of all beginning Visual Basic
programmers, it should be the FIRST thing that you check and carefully look for.
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See you in class on Tuesday.

Mark