How to use same timer for different time intervals?

Question

I am using a timer in my code. Status bar updates in tick event on clicking respective button for the time inteval mentioned in properties say one second. Now i want to use the same timer for a different time interval say two seconds for a different oepration. How to achieve that?

Answer 1

Create a second timer. There is nothing to gain from hacking the first timer.

As @Henk noted, Timers are not that expensive. (Especially not compared to fixing hard to maintain code!)