Continually repainting a view when the simulation isn't running

Hi. I have a custom GUI control which needs to be constantly repainted (it displays constantly changing data obtained from a DLL).
The trick I've used up till now is to use a hotlinkx which calls repaintview on the control.

My problem is that this doesn't work when the simulation is stopped, I've tried various things like calling repaintview from inside the control's OnDraw attribute, or posting a WM_PAINT message from the same place (which seems to cause an infinite loop and freeze flexsim), but unsurprisingly these don't give the desired result.

Is there some way to get a view to constantly repaint, even when the simulation isn't running?

Attached is a sample model that uses the setticker() command to continuously execute a node. In that node, I repaint a view. In the draw code of an object in the view, I execute code to change the object's color based on how many seconds have passed since the last draw code (so that the logic can be based on real time).

setticker() is called in the Model Control GUI's OnOpen and OnClose.

You can use this method to continually repaint a view without running the simulation.