timed page.jump

[ianhull]

Can anyone tell me how to create a page that will jump to another page after 10 minutes?

Thanks

[rhosk]

I like the easy ones

Just put this in the first pages onShow Event -

Page.StartTimer(600000);

Then, in the onTimer event, tell it what to do when the timer fires -

Page.Jump("your_page");

HTH

[TJ_Tigger]

Here is a little trick I learned from Worm. It uses a dll on your windows machine to get the system time. It proved to be more accurate when creating a timer for the quiz app that I built.

I have tried to add comments on things you can change within the project. Let me know if you have questions.

Here is the function:

DoTimer(allowedtime, JumpPage);
- allowedtime is defined in seconds unless you uncomment a line within the function, then you can define allowedtime in minutes
- JumpPage is a string that defines the page to which you want to jump

function DoTimer(allowedtime, JumpPage)
	-- allowedtime is defined in Seconds
	-- JumpPage is a string defining the page to jump to when the timer expires
	
	-- Uncomment the following text to change the specified allowed time from seconds to minutes
	--allowedtime = allowedtime *60
	
	if basetime == nil then
		basetime = DLL.CallFunction(_SystemFolder .. "\\winmm.dll", "timeGetTime", "", DLL_RETURN_TYPE_LONG, DLL_CALL_STDCALL)
	end
	
	curtime =  DLL.CallFunction(_SystemFolder .. "\\winmm.dll", "timeGetTime", "", DLL_RETURN_TYPE_LONG, DLL_CALL_STDCALL)
	elapsedtime = allowedtime - ((String.ToNumber(curtime) - String.ToNumber(basetime)) / 1000)
	
	if elapsedtime <= 0 then
		Page.StopTimer()
		Page.Jump(JumpPage)	
	else --comment out or delete this section to remove the timer that is shown on the page
		hours = Math.Floor(elapsedtime / 3600);
		mins = Math.Floor((elapsedtime - (hours * 3600)) / 60);
		secs = Math.Floor(elapsedtime - ((hours*3600)+(mins*60)));
		
		if hours < 10 then
			hours = "0"..hours;
		end
		if mins < 10 then
			mins = "0"..mins;
		end
		if secs < 10 then
			secs = "0"..secs;
		end
		
		Label.SetText("Timer", hours..":"..mins..":"..secs)
		--delete or comment through here
	end
end

Tigg