Hi Bob, > Am 17.01.2020 um 17:21 schrieb Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > > This got me thinking, I've pondered a way to run scheduled tasks, and how I > would go about it. I think what I would do is have a faceless standalone that > once launched sent a command in time every second, or 5 seconds or whatever, > and the handler would then check a list or a database for tasks whose > datetime was prior to the current time, and were flagged pending. > > I would then probably through socket communication attempt to trigger the > task to my actual application, and if successful mark the task as completed. > If the socket comm failed, I would simply do nothing and issue another send > in time. > > The advantage of using a dedicated app is that multiple applications could > take advantage of it. A new app could simply register with the timer app > again through sockets, and each task would store the name of the registered > app in the task, so each app would only get it's own tasks. > > Probably more than what you want to do though. At the very least you could > implement this in app.
this seems to be an unneccessary big workaround for something that used to work right out of the box. 8-) Remember this works fine in LC 5.02 and 9.05, so this must be a bug. > Bob S Best Klaus -- Klaus Major https://www.major-k.de kl...@major-k.de _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
