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Posted: **Sat Aug 04, 2018 5:41 pm**

I was hoping you could help me with timers?

I have a process thats already programmed and works perfect but I need to put in a timer that populates every 20 seconds. I know how to do using the wait statement but I need a stop button to interrupt this event.

Basically all the statements I have automated using repeat with but need to press a button to stop the process.

Repeat with x = 1 to 100
Do someting
wait 20 seconds

--- need interrupt here before next loop!!!!!!!!!!!!!
end Repeat

Thanks so much in advance for your help.

Mike

Posted: **Sat Aug 04, 2018 6:12 pm**

Hi Mike,
You may use send command, a pendingmessage.
Something like that:

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on mouseUp
   send "doMyMessage" to me in 20 seconds
end mouseUp

on doMyMessage
   if the mouse is down then exit doMyMessage
   send "doMyMessage" to me in 20  seconds
   put the seconds
end doMyMessage

Please check "send" and "pendingmessage" in dictionary

For progressbar you need a startvalue and an endValue

Edit:
You may also use "wait 20 seconds with messages". In this case you get others messages

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on mouseup
   Repeat with x = 1 to 100
      if the mouse is down then exit repeat
      put the seconds
      wait 20 seconds with messages
   end Repeat
end mouseup

Best regards
Jean-Marc

Posted: **Sat Aug 04, 2018 8:44 pm**

This works fine too:

First, create a hilite button and set the name of it to "stop handler"

Second, create a default button and set the script of it to:

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on mouseUp
   Repeat with x = 1 to 100
put the ticks && x
wait 1 seconds with messages
if the hilite of button "stop handler" then exit to top
--- need interrupt here before next loop!!!!!!!!!!!!!
end Repeat

end mouseUp

Now, click the button and watch the message box.
You could stop the counter just clicking the hilite button.

Al

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:30 am**

Thanks so much for the help. I got the project done thanks to all of your help and I really appreciate it.

Mike

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