start a process when a activity loads/threading

[dougc]

Hi all,
I am trying to figure out the best way to load an activity and have it start running automatically, basically the method goes into an infinite loop (by design) updating @22 labels (basically a binary clock) after computing whether each label should be a one or zero. The method works fine but I had to add a "start" button and at times the GUI is a bit choppy (after computing each label I have a doevents call (to catch any new messages in the queue) but I am wondering if it would not be better to use a thread instead?

any thoughts/suggestions/ideas welcomed

thanks

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[ukimiku]

I can imagine that, especially since you are making a clock, a timer would be a good way of updating the time displayed.

And I think that you can launch it by calling your custom sub (that sets up the timer) from within the predefined "Sub Activity_Create".

Regards,

 

[dougc]

great idea thank you very ,much!

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dougc