Re: Running a procedure every x seconds

From: J West (jimw_at_fluffypaws.co.uk)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:22:29 -0000

You might also want to consider using a thread (Maybe a little advanced for
you at this stage) but it can run in background mode without tying up
resources for the main interface of your application.

Check out TThread in F1 help

Regards

James West

"Simon" <email@isonthewebsite.com> wrote in message
news:9bKdnWKV7Y1OrE3cRVnysg@eclipse.net.uk...
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Delphi, so forgive me for the "noob" posting.
>
> I have an application that reads an XML page from the web and saves the
> data
> to a text file. At the moment this process is triggered manually from a
> button press - what I want to do is remove the button and instead have
> this
> process happen every 30seconds from when the application is launched.
>
> What's the best way of doing this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Simon
>
>