Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-24 Thread Roger Eller
*In your openStack script:*
put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes
send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs

*In your stack script:*
on saveMeCheeses
  -- gather all your text into a variable
  put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/safe/MyFile.txt")
  send saveMeCheeses to me in saveMeCheeses -- this one will keep it
repeating
end saveMeCheeses

~Roger


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Richmond wrote:

> Merry LibreOffice allows one to set it so that it autosaves a document
> at a set time interval in case your computer goes wonky, or LibreOffice
> crashes.
>
> And a jolly good idea that is too (even if they pinched it from Microsoft).
>
> Now I would like to have the same sort of feature in my "next thang"; the
> up-and-coming-and-sweeping-**all-office-suits-before-it
> 'Richmond-Scrubby-Cupboard'
> (well, round these parts that's what passes for an office) made,
> needless to say, entirely in Livecode.
>
> Obviously, central to my text entry component "Wobbly Word",
> there will have to be a field, and any autosave feature will have to save
> and/or export
> and/or overwrite a rtf and/or html document at regular intervals.
>
> Now what I don't understand is how to have a script working away 'in the
> background'
> checking the time and autosaving every 2-3 minutes without it interfering
> with
> user-initiated scripts in the foreground or the reverse.
>
> Richmond.
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Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-24 Thread Roger Eller
OOPS!

*In your openStack script:*
put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes
send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs

*In your stack script:*
on saveMeCheeses
  -- gather all your text into a variable
  put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/safe/MyFile.txt")
  send saveMeCheeses to me in (tSaveInterval*60) secs -- this one will keep
it repeating
end saveMeCheeses


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Roger Eller wrote:

> *In your openStack script:*
> put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes
> send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs
>
> *In your stack script:*
> on saveMeCheeses
>   -- gather all your text into a variable
>   put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/safe/MyFile.txt")
>   send saveMeCheeses to me in saveMeCheeses -- this one will keep it
> repeating
> end saveMeCheeses
>
> ~Roger
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Richmond wrote:
>
>> Merry LibreOffice allows one to set it so that it autosaves a document
>> at a set time interval in case your computer goes wonky, or LibreOffice
>> crashes.
>>
>> And a jolly good idea that is too (even if they pinched it from
>> Microsoft).
>>
>> Now I would like to have the same sort of feature in my "next thang"; the
>> up-and-coming-and-sweeping-**all-office-suits-before-it
>> 'Richmond-Scrubby-Cupboard'
>> (well, round these parts that's what passes for an office) made,
>> needless to say, entirely in Livecode.
>>
>> Obviously, central to my text entry component "Wobbly Word",
>> there will have to be a field, and any autosave feature will have to save
>> and/or export
>> and/or overwrite a rtf and/or html document at regular intervals.
>>
>> Now what I don't understand is how to have a script working away 'in the
>> background'
>> checking the time and autosaving every 2-3 minutes without it interfering
>> with
>> user-initiated scripts in the foreground or the reverse.
>>
>> Richmond.
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Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-24 Thread Peter Haworth
One extra thought.  Maybe it would be good for openField to set a custom
property of the field to true and have a closefield/exitfield handler to
set it to false Then have SaveMeCheeses check the custom property
before sending the message to itself.  Might prevent some unnecessary saves.
Pete
lcSQL Software 


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Roger Eller wrote:

> *In your openStack script:*
> put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes
> send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs
>
> *In your stack script:*
> on saveMeCheeses
>   -- gather all your text into a variable
>   put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/safe/MyFile.txt")
>   send saveMeCheeses to me in saveMeCheeses -- this one will keep it
> repeating
> end saveMeCheeses
>
> ~Roger
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Richmond  >wrote:
>
> > Merry LibreOffice allows one to set it so that it autosaves a document
> > at a set time interval in case your computer goes wonky, or LibreOffice
> > crashes.
> >
> > And a jolly good idea that is too (even if they pinched it from
> Microsoft).
> >
> > Now I would like to have the same sort of feature in my "next thang"; the
> > up-and-coming-and-sweeping-**all-office-suits-before-it
> > 'Richmond-Scrubby-Cupboard'
> > (well, round these parts that's what passes for an office) made,
> > needless to say, entirely in Livecode.
> >
> > Obviously, central to my text entry component "Wobbly Word",
> > there will have to be a field, and any autosave feature will have to save
> > and/or export
> > and/or overwrite a rtf and/or html document at regular intervals.
> >
> > Now what I don't understand is how to have a script working away 'in the
> > background'
> > checking the time and autosaving every 2-3 minutes without it interfering
> > with
> > user-initiated scripts in the foreground or the reverse.
> >
> > Richmond.
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Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-30 Thread Richmond
Thanks chaps, but after some thought I went for a completely different 
way of doing things
and had the stack save a backup RTF document every time the end-user 
pressed a key on her/his


(and I really should apologise that I am not entirely sure how to signal 
that I should like to include the transgendered community in this 
statement; I would be most grateful if a transgendered person who may be 
lurking on the Use-lIst - Hey, come out of the closet into the Livecode 
sunshine could tell me the T possessive pronoun)


keyboard by putting an export to file statement at the end of an on 
rawKeyDown script.


Richmond.

OOPS!

*In your openStack script:*
put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes
send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs

*In your stack script:*
on saveMeCheeses
   -- gather all your text into a variable
   put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/safe/MyFile.txt")
   send saveMeCheeses to me in (tSaveInterval*60) secs -- this one will keep
it repeating
end saveMeCheeses


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Roger Eller wrote:


*In your openStack script:*
put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes
send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs

*In your stack script:*
on saveMeCheeses
   -- gather all your text into a variable
   put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/safe/MyFile.txt")
   send saveMeCheeses to me in saveMeCheeses -- this one will keep it
repeating
end saveMeCheeses

~Roger


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Richmond wrote:


Merry LibreOffice allows one to set it so that it autosaves a document
at a set time interval in case your computer goes wonky, or LibreOffice
crashes.

And a jolly good idea that is too (even if they pinched it from
Microsoft).

Now I would like to have the same sort of feature in my "next thang"; the
up-and-coming-and-sweeping-**all-office-suits-before-it
'Richmond-Scrubby-Cupboard'
(well, round these parts that's what passes for an office) made,
needless to say, entirely in Livecode.

Obviously, central to my text entry component "Wobbly Word",
there will have to be a field, and any autosave feature will have to save
and/or export
and/or overwrite a rtf and/or html document at regular intervals.

Now what I don't understand is how to have a script working away 'in the
background'
checking the time and autosaving every 2-3 minutes without it interfering
with
user-initiated scripts in the foreground or the reverse.

Richmond.

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Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-30 Thread stephen barncard
just say "LGBT community". Easier.


On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Richmond wrote:

> Thanks chaps, but after some thought I went for a completely different way
> of doing things
> and had the stack save a backup RTF document every time the end-user
> pressed a key on her/his
>
> (and I really should apologise that I am not entirely sure how to signal
> that I should like to include the transgendered community in this
> statement; I would be most grateful if a transgendered person who may be
> lurking on the Use-lIst - Hey, come out of the closet into the Livecode
> sunshine could tell me the T possessive pronoun)
>
> keyboard by putting an export to file statement at the end of an on
> rawKeyDown script.
>
> Richmond.
>
>  OOPS!
>>
>> *In your openStack script:*
>> put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes
>> send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs
>>
>> *In your stack script:*
>> on saveMeCheeses
>>-- gather all your text into a variable
>>put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/**safe/MyFile.txt")
>>send saveMeCheeses to me in (tSaveInterval*60) secs -- this one will
>> keep
>> it repeating
>> end saveMeCheeses
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Roger Eller > >**wrote:
>>
>>  *In your openStack script:*
>>> put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes
>>> send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs
>>>
>>> *In your stack script:*
>>> on saveMeCheeses
>>>-- gather all your text into a variable
>>>put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/**safe/MyFile.txt")
>>>send saveMeCheeses to me in saveMeCheeses -- this one will keep it
>>> repeating
>>> end saveMeCheeses
>>>
>>> ~Roger
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Richmond *
>>> *wrote:
>>>
>>>  Merry LibreOffice allows one to set it so that it autosaves a document
 at a set time interval in case your computer goes wonky, or LibreOffice
 crashes.

 And a jolly good idea that is too (even if they pinched it from
 Microsoft).

 Now I would like to have the same sort of feature in my "next thang";
 the
 up-and-coming-and-sweeping-all-office-suits-before-it
 'Richmond-Scrubby-Cupboard'
 (well, round these parts that's what passes for an office) made,
 needless to say, entirely in Livecode.

 Obviously, central to my text entry component "Wobbly Word",
 there will have to be a field, and any autosave feature will have to
 save
 and/or export
 and/or overwrite a rtf and/or html document at regular intervals.

 Now what I don't understand is how to have a script working away 'in the
 background'
 checking the time and autosaving every 2-3 minutes without it
 interfering
 with
 user-initiated scripts in the foreground or the reverse.

 Richmond.

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Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-30 Thread J. Landman Gay

On 3/30/13 3:34 PM, stephen barncard wrote:

just say "LGBT community". Easier.


I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically 
correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody.


"When the user presses a key on their keyboard..."

Or don't use a pronoun at all:

"When the user presses a key on the keyboard..."

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Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-31 Thread Richmond

On 03/30/2013 10:34 PM, stephen barncard wrote:

just say "LGBT community". Easier.


Thanks, but I still need to know the possessive pronoun . . . 'shis' ?




On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Richmond wrote:


Thanks chaps, but after some thought I went for a completely different way
of doing things
and had the stack save a backup RTF document every time the end-user
pressed a key on her/his

(and I really should apologise that I am not entirely sure how to signal
that I should like to include the transgendered community in this
statement; I would be most grateful if a transgendered person who may be
lurking on the Use-lIst - Hey, come out of the closet into the Livecode
sunshine could tell me the T possessive pronoun)

keyboard by putting an export to file statement at the end of an on
rawKeyDown script.

Richmond.

  OOPS!

*In your openStack script:*
put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes
send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs

*In your stack script:*
on saveMeCheeses
-- gather all your text into a variable
put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/**safe/MyFile.txt")
send saveMeCheeses to me in (tSaveInterval*60) secs -- this one will
keep
it repeating
end saveMeCheeses


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Roger Eller 
**wrote:

  *In your openStack script:*

put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes
send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs

*In your stack script:*
on saveMeCheeses
-- gather all your text into a variable
put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/**safe/MyFile.txt")
send saveMeCheeses to me in saveMeCheeses -- this one will keep it
repeating
end saveMeCheeses

~Roger


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Richmond *
*wrote:

  Merry LibreOffice allows one to set it so that it autosaves a document

at a set time interval in case your computer goes wonky, or LibreOffice
crashes.

And a jolly good idea that is too (even if they pinched it from
Microsoft).

Now I would like to have the same sort of feature in my "next thang";
the
up-and-coming-and-sweeping-all-office-suits-before-it
'Richmond-Scrubby-Cupboard'
(well, round these parts that's what passes for an office) made,
needless to say, entirely in Livecode.

Obviously, central to my text entry component "Wobbly Word",
there will have to be a field, and any autosave feature will have to
save
and/or export
and/or overwrite a rtf and/or html document at regular intervals.

Now what I don't understand is how to have a script working away 'in the
background'
checking the time and autosaving every 2-3 minutes without it
interfering
with
user-initiated scripts in the foreground or the reverse.

Richmond.

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Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-31 Thread Robert Brenstein

On 30.03.2013 at 16:46 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote:


I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically 
correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody.


"When the user presses a key on their keyboard..."

Or don't use a pronoun at all:

"When the user presses a key on the keyboard..."

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Actually, it is grammatically correct, at least according to webster people

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2359037269558

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Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-31 Thread Richmond

On 03/31/2013 07:58 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote:

On 30.03.2013 at 16:46 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote:


I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically 
correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody.


"When the user presses a key on their keyboard..."

Or don't use a pronoun at all:

"When the user presses a key on the keyboard..."

--
Jacqueline Landman Gay


Actually, it is grammatically correct, at least according to webster 
people


http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2359037269558


I'm just in the middle of reading Mencken's "The American Language" for 
the 3rd time.




robert

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Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-31 Thread J. Landman Gay

On 3/31/13 11:58 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote:

On 30.03.2013 at 16:46 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote:


I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically
correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody.

...

Actually, it is grammatically correct, at least according to webster people


I'm vindicated! :)

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Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-31 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:46 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically
> correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody.
>

In English, unlike the word "her," the word "his" does not imply gender on
its own when used for a unknown person.  As the same word is used for known
male and unknown gender, there just isn't a word that informs you (without
relying on other context) that the unspecified person is male.


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Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-31 Thread Peter Bogdanoff

On Mar 31, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:46 PM, J. Landman Gay 
> wrote:
> 
>> I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically
>> correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody.
>> 
> 
> In English, unlike the word "her," the word "his" does not imply gender on
> its own when used for a unknown person.  As the same word is used for known
> male and unknown gender, there just isn't a word that informs you (without
> relying on other context) that the unspecified person is male.
> 
 But using "his" is not politically correct.

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Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-31 Thread kee nethery
I know english language experts say I am wrong but I too tend to use "they" and 
"their" to be gender neutral.
Kee


On Mar 31, 2013, at 10:28 PM, Peter Bogdanoff  wrote:

> 
> On Mar 31, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:46 PM, J. Landman Gay 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically
>>> correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody.
>>> 
>> 
>> In English, unlike the word "her," the word "his" does not imply gender on
>> its own when used for a unknown person.  As the same word is used for known
>> male and unknown gender, there just isn't a word that informs you (without
>> relying on other context) that the unspecified person is male.
>> 
> But using "his" is not politically correct.
> 
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>> (702) 508-8462
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