Timer for button

[anon95022132]

Hi
Is there a way to automatically click a button every certain period of time ? I tried adding timer but is not working.

[Joseph_Oster]

A problem with buttons is that they generate two “events” instead of just one, as usually desired. (OnMouseDown and OnMouseUp)

You might want to look at this thread:

Internalize Timer in C# - Simple Counter

To avoid the conflict between multiple timers, I have reverted to an updated version of the Python counter I posted before. [counter_2020Mar4a] counter_2020Mar4a.gh (7.9 KB) Just two little problems observed so far… If you close the model and reopen it without quitting Rhino, the timers restart with their “sticky” values instead of zero. If you close Rhino without closing the GH model first, the following error message appears, apparently because the timer makes Rhino believe the GH model h…

There can be problems when you have two or more timers in a single GH file.

[anon95022132]

Thank you !

[Joseph_Oster]

In case it isn’t obvious, the output of those Counter components will have the same effect as a button on downstream components, except that you get only one event on each interval instead of two.

counter_2020Mar4a.gh (7.9 KB)

[johnharding]

You can stick a not gate at the end of course to hit ‘true’ when the counter returns to zero.

Counter.gh (3.8 KB)

[anon95022132]

Thanks a lot!