Re: implementing a CDPlayer fast forward button

[Matt Goodall <mgg isotek co uk>]

"Jeff W." wrote:

> on a cdplayer, you hold down the fast forward button and it continuously
> advances by several seconds at a time.  So I tried putting code to do
> just that in a "on_btnFF_pressed" event.  But when I do that, it only
> advances once, not continuously.  How can I make it so that while I'm
> holding down on a button, the code within that function keeps being
> executed, until I let go of the button?  Thanks.

You'll probably need to start a timeout or thread when the button is
pressed and stop the timeout (or thread) when the button is released.

HTH

Cheers, Matt.

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