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 <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.
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