How do I make picture boxes move from one fixed point to another fixed point?

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I have four picture boxes

1 2
4 3

placed in the format above.
when i click the button it rotates my picture boxes only once like this

2 3
1 4

and timer will start and count up to 3 seconds then auto clicks my button to rotate again but in this case my code is wrong please help so i can rotate this picture boxes random number of times?

What I have tried:

C#

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace MoveBox
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

            if (pictureBox1.Location.Equals(pictureBox1.Location))
            {
                //This swaps positions of picture boxes clockwise
                // first -90 degree rotation of four boxes
                pictureBox1.Location = new Point(0, 160);
                pictureBox2.Location = new Point(0, 0);
                pictureBox3.Location = new Point(180, 0);
                pictureBox4.Location = new Point(180, 160);
                moveTimer1.Enabled = true;
            }
            else if (pictureBox1.Location.Equals(pictureBox3.Location))
            {
                //This swaps positions of picture boxes clockwise
                // second -90 degree rotation of four boxes
                pictureBox1.Location = new Point(0, 0);
                pictureBox2.Location = new Point(180, 0);
                pictureBox3.Location = new Point(180, 160);
                pictureBox4.Location = new Point(0, 160);
            }
        }

        private void moveTimer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            int timer = Convert.ToInt32(label1.Text);
            label1.Text = Convert.ToString(timer + 1);
            while (timer == 3)
            {
                  moveTimer1.Enabled = false;
                  button1.PerformClick();
            }
            
        }
    }
}

Posted 16-May-17 9:49am

Member 13200081

Updated 16-May-17 11:46am

Maciej Los

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Richard MacCutchan 16-May-17 16:16pm

while (timer == 3)
You will only move the boxes if timer is equal to 3, which will only happen once.

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Maciej Los · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-16T11:46:00

Assuming that you want to rotate/move images every 3 seconds, you have to provide a method which get two random pictureboxes and replaces images in them instead of replacing pricuteboxes locations (unless, you want to move pictureboxes).

On button click:

C#

Timer1.Interval = 3000 // Here 3000 milliseconds = 3 seconds  
Timer1.Start()

On Timer tick you have to call (for example): MovePicture() method.
Think of it! It seems to be easy to implement. You have to define a List<Point> to be able to shuffle them by using Random class[^]:

C#

//create initial list of picture locations
List<System.Drawing.Point> picLocations = new List<System.Drawing.Point>()
	{
		new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0),
		new System.Drawing.Point(180, 0),
		new System.Drawing.Point(180, 160),
		new System.Drawing.Point(0, 160)
	};


//...

//MovePicture method
//randomize 
Random r = new Random();
int f = r.Next(0,2); //get random number between 0 and 1 - a picture location from first row
System.Drawing.Point first = picLocations[f]; 
int s = r.Next(2,4); //get random number between 2 and 3 - a picture location from second row
System.Drawing.Point second = picLocations[s]; 

//replace locations
picLocations[f] = second;
picLocations[s] = first;

//finall
PictureBox1.Location = picLocation[0];
PictureBox2.Location = picLocation[1];
PictureBox3.Location = picLocation[2];
PictureBox4.Location = picLocation[3];

Sample picture locations one timer execution:

Good luck!