[Closed] Dotnet timer differences

“System.Windows.Forms.Timer” is the same class as “Timer”. Maxscript automatically searches inside “System.Windows.Forms”.

“System.Timers.Timer” is a different beast, and so is “System.Threading.Timer”.

Read about the differences:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164015.aspx

Thanks Rotem for this info

(
 	local theTimer -- If its global then it's working from startup
 	fn myfn = 
 	(
 		print "inside function"
 	)
 
 	print "outside function"
 	
 	theTimer = dotNetObject "System.Windows.Forms.Timer"
 	theTimer.interval = 200
 	theTimer.start()
 	fn onTick s a =
 	 (
 		myfn()
 		theTimer.Stop()
 	 )
 	dotnet.addEventHandler theTimer "tick" onTick
 )

I’ve got a very strange situation. Why the timer should be global to work from startup?

It doesn’t have to be global, but in order to keep it from being garbage collected, you must:

• keep a reference to it somewhere, like a struct, rollout, etc.
• or use dotnet.SetLifetimeControl #dotnet

Thank you, lo! Now it’s working great!