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[Little-Acorn]

Basically I'm looking for a way to generate an interrupt(I guess, or something similar) every half second. I have a display with a number of edit boxes that display one variable each. There's a program running in the background that occasionally changes the value of some of those variables, it's pretty random. I'd like to update them twice a second, even though many changes to the variables might have been made since the last update.

I've been looking at CLOCK and TIMER commands, but haven't yet seen anything that seems to run quietly in the background while letting my main program also run in the background, then pops up every half second and somehow cues me to run the UPDATE procedure. Maybe I just glossed over the part I'm looking for, wouldn't be the first time. I'm a FORTRAN oldie but a Windows newbie, and am also new to the Silverfrost compiler and its extensions, interrupts etc.

Thanx all!

[LitusSaxonicum]

Assuming you are running ClearWin+, just add this:

IB = WINIO@('%dl&',0.50D0,Service_FN)

... where Service_FN is an INTEGER*4 function that is called every half second, and updates your window ... the 0.5D0 is at half second intervals.

Eddie