The following tutorials demonstrate the use of the System.Windows.Forms.Timer dotNetObject as alternative to the MAXScript Timer UI Control. Other than the latter, the DotNet object version does not require a MAXScript User Interface to be created and opened to run a MAXScript function at given time intervals.

Related topics:

DotNet In MAXScript

dotNetObject

dotNetObject:System.Windows.Forms.Timer

NATURAL LANGUAGE

Create a DotNet Timer Object.

Define a MAXScript function to be called periodically by the timer.

Register an Event Handler to call the function

Start the Timer.

EXAMPLE

   theTimer = dotNetObject "System.Windows.Forms.Timer"
   fn printTime = (print localTime)
   dotnet.addEventHandler theTimer "tick" printTime
   theTimer.interval = 1000
   theTimer.start()
   --theTimer.stop()

SAMPLE LISTENER OUTPUT:

   dotNetObject:System.Windows.Forms.Timer 
   printTime() 
   OK 
   1000 
   undefined 
   "10/20/2007 1:11:28 PM" 
   "10/20/2007 1:11:29 PM" 
   "10/20/2007 1:11:30 PM" 
   "10/20/2007 1:11:31 PM"

theTimer = dotNetObject "System.Windows.Forms.Timer"

Create a Timer.

fn printTime = (print localTime)

Define a MAXScript function to be called by the Timer.

dotnet.addEventHandler theTimer "tick" printTime

Add ON TICK event handler to call the function.

theTimer.interval = 1000

Set the tick interval to 1 second (1000 milliseconds).

theTimer.start()

Start the Timer.

--theTimer.stop()

Remove the remark and call this method to stop the Timer.