Overview
A timer control is a tool used to perform actions at a specified time interval. This control has no visual elements, and is controlled via actions.
Additional features of the timer control can be found in the following two categories:
Note: A timer's CtrlID will always equal 0.
A notification message is triggered whenever the user interacts with a control, or whenever user interaction affects a control in some way. Each notification message consists of a number that identifies the type of interaction that has occurred, and a table containing details specific to that type of interaction. These two values are passed to the screen's On Ctrl Message event as the event variables e_MsgID and e_Details.
(number)
e_MsgID
A numeric constant that represents the specific notification message that
was fired by the screen control. See the e_MsgID column below for all
possible message ids that can be fired by a button control.
(table) e_Details
A table of additional details that may be passed by the control
when certain notification messages are fired. See the e_Details column
below for the kinds of details that are returned and the table indexes
that you can use to access them.
|
e_MsgID |
e_Details |
Description |
|
MSGID_ONTIMER |
nil |
Fired at the interval specified with Screen.StartTimer. |
The following actions are available for interacting with a timer control: