Gentlemen,
The trigger will be 'pulled' once or twice a day only -- so these
external to LC options are also viable. Hadn't entered my head at
all!
Will be playing around with all these ideas and learn something!
Basically use Macs, but have couple unused Windows laptops --
sounds like Task Scheduler and .bat files might be easier to deal
with.
Thanks.
Tim
On 2022.07.13 18:20, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote:
Whatever works for your situation! At least one of my jobs, which
runs a few times a week (pulling data from an internal system,
generating and emailing a PDF report) has to launch fresh each
time because of a bug in the graph widget which displays wrong if
the script runs twice!
There are others where the LC qpp is part of a dance in which
other systems run before and after, so a batch script invoking
each in turn is the thing that's scheduled.
But of course there are contexts in which the best solution is an
LC app waiting for a time or a command at which to leap into action.
On 12/07/2022 22:56, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
Hmmm. Ok, but it seems having the LC app running invisibly all
the time, listening for a command, something the cron service
could do through the terminal easily enough, you could make it
much more efficient. Just methods and madness I suppose.
Bob S
On Jul 12, 2022, at 13:15 , Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
I think I may not have been very clear.
This isn't LiveCode doing anything special; just a standalone
LiveCode app that either does something immediately on launch
(and then quits), or inspects the command line parameters to
decide what to do (and then quits).
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