newbie question

[Thierry Arbellot]

2 solutions :

1. use wait for 1 sec with messages

2. better : the send command

local Start, timerIsStarted

on startMyTimer
   put the seconds into Start
   put true into timerIsStarted
end startMyTimer

on myTimer
   if timerIsStarted then
     put (the seconds - value(Start)) into field "Timer"
     send "myTimer" to me in 1 sec
end if
end myTimer

Hope it helps.

Thierry Arbellot.

to stop the timer, set the flag timerIsStarted to false

On Saturday, December 6, 2003, at 11:04 PM, Paul Morran wrote:

> how can I keep a timer running and still allow the application to do 
> other things?
>
> my timer code is just -
>
> put the seconds into Start
>
> repeat forever
>
> wait for 1 sec
>
> put (the seconds - value(Start)) into field "Timer"
>
> end repeat
>
> of course the 'repeat forever'  means nothing else can happen meantime
>
>
>
> thanks for any insights
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