Timer User Control

 

Control Description

The Timer User Control is a basic control that implements a timer, that raises an event at user-defined intervals.

Using the Control

Drag the control from the Toolbox and drop it anywhere in the form. The place where you drop it within the form is not important, as the control has no visual behavior.

Whenever the Enabled property is set to True and the Interval property is greater than zero, the Elapsed event is raised at intervals based on the Interval property setting.

For example, if you want to automatically redirect to a new page after 5 seconds, you should:

• Set the interval property to 5000
• Enable the timer in the Start event
• Program the Elapsed event with something like this:

Event Timer1.Elapsed
    Link(WebPanel2)
EndEvent

Control Properties

The control has the following properties:

• Control name: The name of the control
• Interval: Gets or sets the time, in milliseconds, before the Elapsed event is raised.
• Enabled (available at runtime only): Gets or sets whether the timer is running (default is False).

Remarks

By default, the timer is disabled, so if you want it to start running it as the page is loaded, you will have to enable it in the Start event:

Event Start
    Timer1.Enabled = True
EndEvent

If you want to change the Interval property to a running timer, you will have to disable and re-enable it, so the change takes effect.