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[Andreone]

I encountered a problem when using a timer label for several timers at the same time. Once in the timer's label, there's is no way to know which timer is actually running.
For instance, if you make a special notification method that show a dialog for a few second, you use a timer to hide the window. To be clean, you can embed the all process in one function, using a private label and a static variable that holds the shown window id. If a second notification is launched whilst the first one is still shown, there's a problem.

What I propose is to provide an additional (and optional) parameter to the SetTimer function. This parameter could be anything the user wants (a string, a window id, the address of a structure, ...) And this value would be associated with the timer callback.

Example of what can be done now:

[Lexikos]

I think the method described in call functions in HotKey, SetTimer would be more powerful and appropriate, but perhaps this would be easier to pull off.

[Andreone]

I agree that function calls would be more powerful and achieve the same goal. However, they seems also more difficult to implement than what I propose (maybe that's the reason it has been delayed/dropped).

The way is propose is simple, doesn't break existing scripts and offers a real workaround to this issue. Unless you know an other way to handle this?