I often want a message that has been created by @Confirm to disappear after say 3 seconds so that I don't have to muck around dismissing it. That's not one of the normal DOpus commands (at least, I think it's not), but it looks as if it can be done with a script by putting a timer onto a dialogue. …

[image] Dialog.SetTimer/Dialog.KillTimer example? Help & Support DO 12.2.3 comes with Dialog.SetTimer/Dialog.KillTimer without an example, could someone please give me one about how to use it in VBScript/JScript? Thanks in advance!

Jon, I'm out of my depth — throw me an Angel Ring. I have downloaded the clock button, and it works perfectly on my toolbar, but then I'm lost. I created a simple DOpus.dlg in a test add-in. Then I tried adding just the single line var oTimer = oDlg.SetTimer (3000), but it throws an 'error at …

https://www.gpsoft.com.au/help/opus12/index.html#!Documents/Scripting/Resources.htm explains how to use resources in a script add-in. If you post your dialog and code I'll have a look.

Thanks. Jon, I took the Clock script, atttempted to translate it into JScript, then adapted it to an autoclose button (I'll work on the add-in script later). I also made trivial changes in Resources — smaller font and longer box. function onClick (clickData) { var oDlg = DOpus.Dlg oDlg.templat…

I've now solved problems 1 and 2 above by ditching the while loop and simplifying the code to: function OnClick (clickData) { var oDlg = DOpus.Dlg oDlg.template = "clock" oDlg.detach = true oDlg.show var oTimer = oDlg.SetTimer (3000, "CloseTimer") oDlg.Control ("time").label = "Will disappea…

You don't define the xml resources by hand. There is a dialog editor for making them, built in to the program.

As Leo said, use the dialog editor to edit the dialogs - don't try defining the resource by hand. You also need to put the while loop back - you need to run a proper message loop, simply handling the first message that comes in will not do what you want. None of the code you've posted corresponds …

Thanks, jon and leo. OK, I'll stop trying to edit the resource myself. I'll do it in the button version of the script, then copy it over to the add-in. I did do my best to read all the relevant pages after jon told me to do so, but without a lot of understanding, so I will now make some time and …

[image] Julianon: (By the way, in my previous post, the Forum webpage unhelpfully changed my numerals 3 and 4, which I had typed at the start of my last two paragraphs, to 1 and 2, and indented them, thus confusing everything. This is a really bad case of software dumbing things down.) Use j…

Jon and leo, I've read and read, as instructed, and the best that I can come up with is this — not pretty, but it doesn't seem to break anything or fill memory. If you declare it safe, I'll post a script addin with a couple of useful commands involving autoclosing message boxes. function OnClick (…

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