[futurebasic] Re: [FB] ON TIMER event handling

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From: Staz <staz@...>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:47:31 -0500
> Richard Goodman wrote:
>> 
>> Peter Bancroft wrote:
>> 
>> TIMER once set going never stops running. You can't turn it off. It's been
>> this way forever.
>> 
>> -----------------------------
>> 
>> Yes, I understand that. When I want to "disable" TIMER, I simply set TIMER
>> to some very large value so that my timer routine won't be accessed. When I
>> want to resume TIMER activation, I reset TIMER to the proper value.
>> 
>> My question had to do with error messages I got with certain TIMER
>> statements that appear in the reference manual:
>> 
>> ON TIMER END, ON TIMER OFF, TIMER(0) OFF, and TIMER OFF.
>> 
> 
> There is a mistake in the Reference Manual it seems. No such
> statements as ON TIMER END and ON TIMER OFF.
> The correct statements are TIMER END and TIMER OFF.

tnx.



-STAZ  ~)~