Timer Object

[Michael Mooney]

Could use a "timer object" that can be placed on a Form (or called by a method) and perform the following:

1. Timer will fire after xxxxx.xxx seconds and call a Form or Global method;

2. Execution will continue after the timer object is "started": this would run as a background task.

Useful for a number of things such as triggering events after x seconds or minutes of user inactivity, releasing resources or connections, etc.

Does anyone have a technique using current 3.5 methods? I am aware of the application.sleep method and run prog in background app node methods.

Michael

[pbakker]

Sounds like you need to delve into the scheduler plugin and batch processors...

Paul

[Michael Mooney]

Thanks, Paul - missed that plugin feature (I thought it was just for firing scheduled Cron jobs ... looks like it is much broader than that!).