Re: Time display
on 11/25/02 11:04 PM, Phil Davis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually that should be: Idle handlers are the devil's workshop. (maybe the old saying was only a US thing... ) :o) Phil On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 10:51 PM, Dominique wrote: Put an on idle handler in the card's script idle is the root of all evil... avoid it! -- Regards, (-8 Dominique ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard With all respect to Dominique and Phil, I would like to disagree here. I use to avoid idle handlers like crazy in HyperCard until one day one of the guys from Heizer Software said simply There's nothing wrong with idle handlers. I've used them ever since with no problem. You just have to remember they're there when you look for bugs. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Time display
--On Tuesday, November 26, 2002 09:24:46 -0800 Ray Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 11/25/02 11:04 PM, Phil Davis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually that should be: Idle handlers are the devil's workshop. With all respect to Dominique and Phil, I would like to disagree here. I use to avoid idle handlers like crazy in HyperCard until one day one of the guys from Heizer Software said simply There's nothing wrong with idle handlers. I've used them ever since with no problem. You just have to remember they're there when you look for bugs. If you search the archive you'll find at least one instance where one of the guys from Metacard explains what's wrong with using idle in MC and then decide whom to believe. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Regards, Andu Novac ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Time display
Ray Horsley wrote: I use to avoid idle handlers like crazy in HyperCard until one day one of the guys from Heizer Software said simply There's nothing wrong with idle handlers. I've used them ever since with no problem. You just have to remember they're there when you look for bugs. But in HyperCard you have no alternative. In Rev you have timers. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.1: Publish any database on any site ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Time display
Actually that should be: Idle handlers are the devil's workshop. Or maybe: The road to hell is paved with good indention. :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Time display
On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 10:12 AM, Ken Ray wrote: Actually that should be: Idle handlers are the devil's workshop. Or maybe: The road to hell is paved with good indention. An idle soul suffers hunger. -- Proverbs 19:15b Solomon meant by this, do doubt, that stacks that use idle heavily tend to consume CPU cycles and get sluggish. BTW, if a more timely refresh is needed in a clock or other GUI display, the more repetitive send-cycle handler can check whether the data has changed and only update the control only if it has. Dar Scott ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Time display
1. Actually, it is , The LOVE of idle is the root of all evil. It is the love of the object that is problematic, not the object itself. 2. The Help Index is a beautiful thing, sorely under used. Entering idle will get you the MetaTalk Reference stack that includes, The idle message is supported for backward compatibility. All new development should use delayed send commands insted of idle. miscdas Phil Davis writes: Actually that should be: Idle handlers are the devil's workshop. (maybe the old saying was only a US thing... ) :o) Phil On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 10:51 PM, Dominique wrote: Put an on idle handler in the card's script idle is the root of all evil... avoid it! -- Regards, (-8 Dominique ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Time display
Hi, I got this problem. is there someone knows how to display the time into a field. Just static displaying will work, but is there as posbility to display the actual dynamic time into a field:? Frans ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Time display
Put an on idle handler in the card's script idle is the root of all evil... avoid it! -- Regards, (-8 Dominique ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
