Timer coding

[abidali3]

hi to all
i am want to make timer for auto close form when user stop using form..
thanks for replay
abidali3

 

[sem]

CREATE_TIMER and WHEN-TIMER-EXPIRED trigger.

Regards, Dima

http://seminihin.narod.ru

 

[abidali3]

hi tank's for replay.
i did this work but ..
what kind of coding use in WHEN-TIMER-EXPIRED
for auto colse form after 5 min.
when user does not use computer.

.. abidali3

 

[sem]

In general you should check whether particularly the timer you need has fired that trigger and if so issue EXIT_FORM. BTW how do you identify that the form is not used?

Regards, Dima

http://seminihin.narod.ru

 

[abidali3]

Thank's for replay
i am useing WHEN-TIMER-EXPIRED at form level.
and create one text field name ":S" where time counting is start when form open this field start counting.
i am using this coding ...

IF :S = 300 THEN
EXIT_FORM;
END IF;

and an other coding on WHEN-MOUSE-MOVE
:S :=0;

when this field get 300 then form close and if mouse move between this then :S get 0 and time start again.
but i could not restart when key board use..
what trigger user when press any key of keyboard..
thank's for this
Abidali3/....

 

[lewisp]

You cant trap the individual key presses of the keyboard in forms. This is one of its biggest failings IMO. The nearest you will get is an ON-LOCK trigger, and that will only fire once per record in base table items. You will need to reset the timer using a number of different triggers, such as WHEN-NEW-BLOCK-INSTANCE, WHEN-NEW-ITEM-INSTANCE, WHEN-NEW-RECORD-INSTANCE for example.

However, if you have a large text item that requires the user to enter a lot of data your timer could time out before they have finished entering their data!