*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 <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>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. > > ______________________________**_________________ > 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<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > _______________________________________________ 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