TIMER

TIMER seconds

Activates a timer every specified second.  Note that second is specified as a floating point number and can be less than a second.  The granularity depends on the OS.

Example:

ON TIMER GOTO _Timer

' Activate timer routine every second

TIMER 1

' Print 100 messages, one every 10th of a second

FOR i = 1 TO 100

  SLEEP 0.1

  PRINT "Kalle... ";i,

NEXT i

_Done:

' Disable timer

TIMER 0

END

' Timer Routine

_Timer:

  PRINT "Timer Kicked In !",

  RESUME NEXT