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[mikronos]

Hi all,

I need your help again on this sunday.

Initializing timer like this doesn't work:

SetTimer,tim1,1000*60*3
or
SetTimer,tim1,% 1000*60*3

doesn't work too. The only way I found is to use a variable (!) like this:

val := 1000*60*3
SetTimer,tim1,%val%

How can I avoid the use of a variable ?

Of course I know that I can compute the value 1000*60*3 myself and use the result... But the manual say that we can force an expression in a parameter that does not directly support it.(help Variables and Expressions) So how to ??

Thanks!!
-Mikronos

[engunneer]

maybe:

[mikronos]

thx, but doesn't work...

[PhiLho]

engunneer, a bit off base... I don't see how putting % in front of the label would help.
mikronos, SetTimer tim1, % 1000*60*3 should have worked. It doesn't so either there is a limitation (perhaps because of the textual parameters On & Off) or this is a bug...
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[engunneer]

sometimes i just make up answers, i almost never use the % to expressionalize commands, so I thought maybe it had to be the first parameter. That's what i get for not looking it up.
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[Laszlo]

[mikronos]

Thanks all for replies!!
I'll use a variable name in the line like in your example.

-Mikronos.

BTW should we move this thread to the bug reports ?

[jonny]