Jon wrote:
I'm trying to schedule something to happen some time in the future.
Due to some other complexities, I cannot just do a
send "mouseUp" to me in 1000 seconds
Rather, I have to wake up every 10 seconds and figure out whether it
is time to do the processing or not. The current code is presented
below.
The interesting thing is that, despite the claim that Rev times are in
seconds, and even in milliseconds, the values I'm seeing are in
increments of 60 seconds. I flagged a line in the code below. Rather
than seeing "60" and then "50" and then "40", etc, I instead see "60"
6 times and then "0". Am I doing something wrong? Or, rather, what
am I doing wrong?
Yes :-)
Not entirely sure - there may be multiple things ...
BTW: feel free to show me how I should have written this: it is hugely
awkward and could be done much easier in languages that I know better.
:)
Jon
on mouseup
local mostRecentFTPTime
-- is it time yet?
convert the date && the time to dateItems
subtract field "TestFreq" from item 5 of it
convert it to seconds
put item 1 of it into currTime
if currTime < mostRecentFTPTime then
-- show the user how long before next test
set the text of field "TimeToGo" to mostRecentFTPTime - currTime
& " secs to go" -- this is the line I'm talking about
send "mouseUp" to me in 10 seconds
exit mouseUp end if
-- do the FTP stuff here!
convert the date && the time to seconds
put it into mostRecentFTPTime
send "mouseUp" to me in 10 seconds
end MouseUp
1. I *think* you want the declaration of mostRecentFTPTime to be outside
the handler.
A local declared inside handler gives you a "handler-local" variable -
which is reset each time you enter the handler.
A local declared outside any handler is a "script-local" variable, and
retains its value between calls.
2. Unless you need to for some reason I don't see here, don't mess
around with date & time.
Does "TestFreq" change ? If not, I'd do something like the following :
local nextFTPTime
on mouseUp
if the seconds > nextFTPTime then
do ftp Stuff
put the seconds + field "TestFreq" into nextFTPTime
end if
send "mouseUp" to me in 10 seconds
end mouseUp
or if you want to monitor it, replace the "end if" by
else
put nextFTPTime - the seconds & "seconds to go" into field
"TimeToGo"
end if
If TestFreq does vary, then you need to do more like
local mostRecentFTPTime
on mouseUp
if the seconds > mostRecentFTPTime + field "TestFreq" then
do ftp Stuff
put the seconds into mostRecentFTPTime
end if
send "mouseUp" to me in 10 seconds
end mouseUp
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