# Visual Basic Help **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 10, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-basic-help/655360 "2013-04-10T23:19:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-basic-help/655360/1 "2013-04-10T23:19:05Z")
And yes, this is homework help, but I don’t want an answer. I was hoping for some guidance. for my project I am making a flip book. I am pretty close, but I cannot figure out how to make the pictures run automatically. I can click through each picture and have figured out how to get that far, and I have a counter that stops it at the end, but I just can’t figure out how to make it load each picture (like a slide show). I just need a little hint in the right direction and then I can figure this out. I think I have to use the ToString…? but I’ll be darned if I can figure out how. Any little help you can provide will be appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-basic-help/655360/2 "2013-04-10T23:29:12Z")
Maybe use a [timer control](http://www.instructables.com/id/Simple-Timer-in-Visual-Basic-2010/). You can set it to perform an action at set intervals, e.g. load the next picture every 10 seconds. Is that what you mean? ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-basic-help/655360/3 "2013-04-10T23:30:04Z")
I’m a little confused by the problem description. Do you have a flipbook that you can manually advance and want to make it run automatically? Or do you want it to load something that it’s not loading right now? ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-basic-help/655360/4 "2013-04-10T23:30:53Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Maybe use a [timer control](http://www.instructables.com/id/Simple-Timer-in-Visual-Basic-2010/). +1 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-basic-help/655360/5 "2013-04-10T23:36:51Z")
The timer control is what I need. I have a timer in the program…I just need to figure out how to make each picture advance. Thanks for that site, I’ll go through it line by line. **ultrafilter** , I have a flipbook I can currently advance manually. I want to be able to click one button and have the entire flipbook go through, (and then later, to be able to change its speed too). Once I have it moving, the speed should be easy. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-basic-help/655360/6 "2013-04-10T23:52:39Z")
Take whatever function you’re using to advance the pictures, and make the timer call that when it goes off. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visual-basic-help/655360/7 "2013-04-11T01:00:20Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > Take whatever function you’re using to advance the pictures, and make the timer call that when it goes off. Ok…that I think I can do. Thanks!