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 <roger.e.el...@sealedair.com>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 <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