On Oct 11, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Murray Lesser wrote:
I'm very new at OOP, but I've been using BASIC since early DOS
days. I've been using an attempt to port one of my early
"interactive" programs to Rb. Logically, the way to handle a
portion that runs a sequence of "Beeps" at half-second intervals is
to use a timer, but I can't figure out how associate the timer with
a menu handler, which is the easy way to initiate this part of the
task. If I knew how to initiate a hidden new window with the menu
handler, I think this would solve my problem, but I don't.
There are several ways to handle this, but the easiest is to use the
MenuHandler set the state of the Timer. If you want to disable the
beeps, you would set the Timer.Mode to 0, but if you want to turn
them on, you would set the Timer.Mode to 2 (repeating task).
Another option is to have the timer run all of the time, but use the
MenuItem to set properties in a Module or in the App class. Then the
timer would code would be something like this:
If EnableSoundBeeps Then
// play beep
End If
Your MenuHandler would look something like this:
Function SoundEnableBeeps() As Boolean
SoundEnableBeeps.Checked = Not SoundEnableBeeps.Checked
App.EnableSoundBeeps = Me.Checked
Return True
End Function
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