just say "LGBT community". Easier.
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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. >>>> >>>> ______________________________****_________________ >>>> 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> >>>> <**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<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<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ 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
