Re: Timer

2001-12-15 Thread Domi
Phil Davis ecrivait / wrote: To accomplish your goal without using wait, and using your existing approach, you could give each sent message a different release time, like this: put 10 into field temps repeat with x = 1 to 10 send mouseup to field temps in x seconds end repeat

Timer

2001-12-14 Thread Domi
I want to rewrite a little timer I had in HC -- without resorting to wait or idle which are not recommended in MC... So, I have a button which starts the timer, and a numeric field which the seconds remaining. My goal is to show the seconds, for instance from 10 down to 0. I wrote a loop

Re: Timer

2001-12-14 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Domi, I want to rewrite a little timer I had in HC -- without resorting to wait or idle which are not recommended in MC... ... put 10 into field temps repeat 10 times send mouseup to field temps in 1 second end repeat The field script: on mouseup subtract 1 from me end

Re: Timer

2001-12-14 Thread Domi
Klaus Major ecrivait / wrote: This sends the message every 1 second until the content of fld temps is 0, which means the timer did his work :-) It is very neat a solution, indeed :-) Thus, the answer was not a loop but a self-calling recursive function! -- Regards, Dominique

Re: Timer

2001-12-14 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Dominique, I want to rewrite a little timer I had in HC -- without resorting to wait or idle which are not recommended in MC... So, I have a button which starts the timer, and a numeric field which the seconds remaining. My goal is to show the seconds, for instance from 10 down to 0