Timer not working

[pink]

I'm trying to create a "button" that can be held down to increment a number

my plan was to use mouseDown to initiate a timer, but I keep getting a compile error

so really I have 2 questions:
1. how do I need to work my "schedule timer" command
2. is there a better way to try and hold down a button?

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public handler OnMouseDown()
   variable tNum as Number
   put mText parsed as number into tNum
   add 1 to tNum
   put numToString(tNum) into mText
   put true into mTester
   redraw all
   schedule timer in 1 second
end handler

public handler OnTimer()
   if mTester is true then
      put mText parsed as number into tNum
      add 1 to tNum
      put numToString(tNum) into mText
      put true into mTester
      redraw all
      if tNum < 100 then
         schedule timer in 1 second
      end if
   end if
end handler

public handler OnMouseUp()
   put false into mTester
end handler

the error:

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3:30 PM: Error: on line 142 (): 
3:30 PM: Error: /Users/pink/Dropbox/My LiveCode/Documents/LCB My Testground/PracticeWidget/pratice.lcb:142:36: error: Parsing error: syntax error
          schedule timer in 1 second
                          ^

3:30 PM: Error: failed to compile module

[pink]

ok, it was another error in the dictionary... should be "schedule timer in 1 seconds" not "schedule timer in 1 second"

[bn]

Greg,

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private variable mTester as Boolean
private variable mNumText as String

 public handler OnMouseDown()
    variable tNum as Number
    put "1" into mNumText
    put mNumText parsed as number into tNum
    add 1 to tNum
    put tNum formatted as string into mNumText
    put  not mTester into mTester
    redraw all
    schedule timer in 1 seconds
    log "mouseDown"
 end handler

 public handler OnTimer()
    variable tNum as Number
    if mTester is true then
       put mNumText parsed as number into tNum
       add 1 to tNum
       format tNum as string into mNumText
       put tNum formatted as string into mNumText
       put true into mTester
       redraw all
       if tNum < 10 then
          log tNum
          schedule timer in 1 seconds
       else
          log "TimeIsUp"
          put false into mTester
       end if
    end if
 end handler

adapt this to your situation but you put true into mTester in onMouseDown and false into onMouseUp

that effectively kills your timer right away unless you want to hold down the mouse for the testing period that is.

Kind regards
Bernd

[monte]

@Greg could you report this?