This program is similar to the dice program except that we have added
animation to the program. To add the animated effect, you need to include the
timer control into your program. In the timer's properties windows, set the
timer enabled property to false and the interval to 10. You can change the interval
to any number you want.
Under the roll dice command, set the timer to enabled.
You also need to create a subroutine and name it as roll. Under the roll
subroutine, enter the code that display the different faces of the dice. To
create the animated effect, you need to declare a global variable x and
assign an initial value of 0 to it, then include the statement x=x+10 so
that the value of x increase 10 units after an interval of 10 milliseconds.
Finally, enter the statement under the timer subroutine . This code is to stop the timer. When you click the button roll
dice, you will see that faces of the dice changes and then come to
a stop.
If x < 1000 Then
roll
Else
Timer1.Enabled = False
End If
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