Loop when holding down left mouse button

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Hi

I am new to Xojo and need some help.

For example, let’s say I have a button to increment a number. When I click and hold the left mouse button down when over the button I would like run a loop to increment the number. When I release the left mouse button the number will stop incrementing.

This is a desktop program running in Windows, but I would also want to run it on a Mac later.

Could anyone give me a few tips.

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Drag a Timer to the window and set it’s time to the speed you want this number to increment. With the Button add a MouseDown event to start the timer ( mytimer.mode = timer.modemultiple ) and a MouseUp to stop the timer.

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Sample project: http://timi.me/.misc/looperoo.zip

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The UpDownArrows control does exactly what you want - as long as the arrow is pressed the up or down event will keep on firing.

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Thanks all for the help. Tim, the timer routine worked fine, especially as the routine that I actually wanted to do did need to be speed adjustable, so it was the perfect solution.