Weird Idle behavior

[Mark Smith]

Not sure if it's the answer, but have you checked out the idleRate  
property in the docs?

Best,

Mark

On 27 Mar 2006, at 19:25, Chris Carroll-Davis wrote:

> Hello folks -
>
> here's a weird one...  I'm updating a timer on idle:
>
> On idle
>   global StartTicks
>   if StartTicks = "" then exit idle
>   updateTimer
>   wait 1 millisecond with messages -- attempt at kludge!
> end idle
>
> which just draws an arc graphic to give visual feedback
>
> On updateTimer
>   global StartTicks, timeLimit
>   If StartTicks = "" then exit UpdateTimer
>   put 180+(180/(timeLimit * 60) * (the ticks - StartTicks)) into a
>   set the startangle of grc "timer" to a
>   if a >= 360 and StartTicks <> "" then
>     TimesUp
>     exit updateTimer
>   end if
> end updateTimer
>
>
> This goes along fine, timing out after the timelimit ... except  
> that it doesn't update the display!!    If I call "updateTimer"  
> from a repeat loop, it works fine.  Has anyone come across this  
> before? Anyone got a workaround!?
>
>
> Chris
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