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[a_guy]

Hello,

I have wrote a gui that I plan on having do some things with clocks and timers. Once I hit a button, a time is put into a text field. How can I have a loop that is ALWAYS executing while the gui is alive that could say, decrement a second (I don't need help with decrementing a second, only the placement of said loop). I tried placing after the full code of the gui and nothing happened. Any help would be much appreciated.

[randallf]

[Leef_me]

I think of GUI interfaces as static, meaning non-moving.
GUI interfaces are also economical, they are drawn and done without wasting time.
They only change based on something happening. In fact most of the scripts I have seen there is a Return instruction just after the Gui, show command.

Given those ideas, why not use something that is also economical: SetTimer. It can be set to call a subroutine as often as you like. It can increment a variable and finish, then wait until the next settimer calls it.
You can use this to show "elapsed time".

If you need something that allows a value to be placed in a field based on when the gui was shown an when you pushed the button consider reading and storing a copy of the variables A_Now or A_TickCount. Just after showing the GUI read and store one of those variables, later when you push a button read the variable again. If you subtract the stored value from the last, you get how long between GUI-shown and button-pushed.

If you want to use the SetTimer command to start a subroutine, place the SetTimer command after GUI, show and before Return.

[randallf]

If all you want to do is change text on something without killing the GUI the command specifically (for text and edit fields) is