Timing

[Mark Smith]

put the ticks into tTicks

repeat while the ticks - tTicks < 240
....

Easier though, is to use a send in time, like:

send "showImage" to me in 4 seconds


and then have a handler:

on showImage
   show image "TheTitle"
end showImage

Mark

On 3 Jan 2006, at 02:31, Scott Kane wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to get a simple timing script
> going and so far haven't managed.  Basically
> I need a routine that shows an image after a
> certain number of seconds.  I've tried Ticks
> and seconds but neither seemed to do it.
>
> What I need is something like
>
> put the ticks into elapsedTicks
>   repeat while elapsedTicks < 240 -- 240 being four seconds
>   set the visible of image "TheTitle" to false
>   end repeat
>   set the visible of image "TheTitle" to true
>
> In my tests it drops through the while loop immediately
> and sets the image to visible, rather than waiting the
> desired four seconds.
>
> Scott
>
>
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