Events Block - Forms/Workspace

  

Description

The Autostart Event commences when the program first begins. Autostart Events are only available for Package/Forms and usually used for Initialization. Software Packages that are brought into a project usually initialize themselves with an Autostart Event so that no action is needed to prepare the software package besides copy | pasting it into a project. Block lists that are stared with an Autostart Event do not need to terminate but can have forever loops.

Unlike many other Event blocks, Autostart events are not unique to an object. A single package/form can have multiple Autostart Events. When the program starts the Autostart Events are triggered in a staggered manner with a sample period in between each spawn. If the Autostart tasks do not require elapsed time to execute they finish before the next is started minimizing thread loading but still accommodating a large number of autostart events in a project.

Examples

This Setup Event produces lines to make a form look like graph paper:

... which looks like this:

This Setup Event initializes a list box with a series of numbers:

Related Topics

Mouse Drag Event
Mouse Up Event
Mouse Position X
Mouse Position Y
Set Coordinate Frame