William Squires wrote:
> Oops, I should have given you the 'why' of it. > The reason you can't simply put a Timer directly into your class >is that - unlike in a window - it doesn't know who to send its Action >() event to. By making a Timer subclass (which has a reference to its >parent, or owner, class), that subclass can now do something about >the Action() event the superclass throws; that is, your subclass has >the 'smarts' to handle the Action() event that occurs when the timer >fires, and lets its parent object know about it via the callback. > HTH! > > Ahh. ok. Well, that answers my questions. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
