Open panel for a certain time period

[dimitrios]

Good morning all,

I have a question. I am trying to have a panel open for 30 seconds and then automatically shutdown. Is there a function that could help me with that? I was thinking about timefunc() but I'm not sure that is what I need. Thank you in advance!

Dim

[dvribeira]

Hi Dim,

How are you opening the panel? Normally, from your description I don't think you need high precision, you can just put a delay(30); and then close the panel. Where you do that depends more on what exactly you want to do and how you want to open/close the panel.

[dimitrios]

Hi Dim,

How are you opening the panel? Normally, from your description I don't think you need high precision, you can just put a delay(30); and then close the panel. Where you do that depends more on what exactly you want to do and how you want to open/close the panel.

Hello there!

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm basically making a white panel for a touchscreen, which will allow the user to clean the screen for 30 seconds without the danger of clicking any buttons. Delay works fine but I was also looking for a way of representing a counter in the screen (like a bar, or a timer). That's why I was lokking for a time function maybe. Thank you again!

Dim

[leoknipp]

If you want to display a counter you can make a loop with a delay of 1 second. Within the loop you can make a setValue() for the object which displays the counter.
When the counter has reached the limit the panel is closed.

Best Regards
Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist