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Does anybody know if/how i can activate/stop a timer from a trigger?

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Posted by AsheOck   (1 post)  Bio
Date Wed 30 Apr 2003 02:00 AM (UTC)
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I was wondering if there was a way to Start or stop a timer after reciving an input from the MUX?
Also on a SemiSide note, can i use a trigger to define how many times a timer runs or how long it runs?
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #1 on Wed 30 Apr 2003 02:15 AM (UTC)
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The trigger could do:

world.EnableTimer "timername", 0

That would disable it. Or it could delete it:

world.DeleteTimer "timername"

(You would set the trigger to "send to script" to do that).

You could also use a wildcard (or something) in a trigger to define how long a timer ran (this is the time between firings however).

Timers either run:

* once
* every X seconds
* at a particular time

You cannot set a timer to run every (say) 10 seconds for 5 minutes, however you could do that with 2 timers. One which ran every 10 seconds, and another that ran for 5 minutes which deleted the first one.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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