How to define templateTimer so the action event includes the Index parameter?

Author Name Status Posted Time Haseena Sabir Mohammed 5/4/2008 10:51:45 PM Author is Offline Hi all, I may be trying to go about this the wrong way from a RB perspective, but I'm trying to set up an array of timers and use a user-defined class to define the action for each timer. Say my user-defined class is templateTimer (super class = Timer). I do something like the following: dim timerArray(9) of templateTimer for ix1 = 0 to 9 timerArray(ix1) = new templateTimer next So far so good, but in timerArray's action event, I need to know the subscript of the timer being fired. I can't figure out how to define templateTimer so the action event includes the Index parameter. I'm fairly new to RB so this might not at all be the way it should be done, but any help would be most appreciated! Thanks!

Subject Author Status Date Re: How to define templateTimer so the action even t includes the Index parameter? Hopmann Murki 5/5/2008 1:49:52 AM Why do you need the index though? Each time is its own instance, so it has access to all its own properties and methods. So it's not like it should have to call back into the array. However, you could simply make the index a parameter into the class constructor, like this: Code: Class MySpiffyTimer   Private Dim mIndex as Integer     Sub Constructor( index as Integer )     mIndex = index   End Sub End Class for i as Integer = 0 to 9   timeArray( i ) = new MySpiffyTimer( i ) next i However, I would still advise against this approach. Post Comments Re: I was trying to have an array of canvasses Haseena Sabir Mohammed 5/5/2008 1:53:35 AM Essentially what I was trying to do was to have an array of canvasses with a timer associated with each. I want each canvas to switch from an "off" image (dimmed bulb) to an &quo t;on" image (lit bulb) on its own schedule. I could put the canvas array in place on scre en in the editor and put a timer on each one, but I was hoping to build it programatically to make it easier to change in the future. Thanks for the info! If there's no other way to do it I'll try the unadvised approach. Post Comments Re: How to define templateTimer so the action even t includes the Index parameter? Zouzu Gassinger 5/5/2008 1:51:40 AM If you want to associate one object with another I suggest you do that through sub-classing. So here, sub-class a Canvas and give it a timer property and a method to set it. Give the timer a canvas(lightbulb) property so it can notify the canvas when it's run event fires. You can also use one fast timer that always checks each light bulb if it should be on or not. Post Comments Re: How to define templateTimer so the action even t includes the Index parameter? Helena Eugine Gonsalves 5/5/2008 1:51:45 AM Another option is a ContainerControl if you have the Professional version of REALbasic 2005. Post Comments

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