Weird Idle behavior

[J. Landman Gay]

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!?

Works okay here, after I set the arcAngle to something other than a circle.

This is really a job for the "send" command though. If you send the 
message only once per second you won't get all that extra stuff in the 
pendingmessages.

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