On 1/31/06, Laine Lee <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 1/31/06 10:59 AM, "Mark Lively" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > NSTimers are used to trigger events to happen in the future.
> >
> > You have a few options to replace the missing delay.
>
> Thanks, Mark.
> >
> > 1) recode the entire thing to use the idle loop where you want to
> > delay. This gets REALLY ugly REALLY fast if you have a lot of delays.
> >
>
Property myStatus:0
on idle
if myStatus = 0 then
doStuff1()
display dialog "Waiting on more data" giving up after 1
set status to status +1
return 5 -- 5 second delay for more data
else if myStatus = 1
downloadData()
startDetachedProcessing()
set myStatus to myStatus +1
return 30 -- Check for new data after 30 seconds
else if myStatus = 7
if checkStatus() then
set myStatus to 1 --we have data
return 1
else
display dialog "Processing stuck. Aborting"
set myStatus to 0 -- reinitialize
end if
else
if checkStatus() then
set myStatus to 1 -- process
else
set myStauts to myStatus + 1 -- wait a bit
end if
return 5
end if
end
> This is what I think I have to try. Explanation follows, but can you direct
> me to an example of that implementation?
>
> > 2) Tell some other application who can see the standard additions to
> > delay. (tell application "Finder" to delay 5)
>
> In 10.4.4, I still see error -1762 the first time that command is called. Am
> I doing something wrong?
>
I created a simple ASS application.
on idle theObject
display dialog 1
tell application "Finder" to delay 5
display dialog 2
return 1
end idle
It display both dialogs 5 seconds apart.
> >
> > 3) Roll your own
> >
> > on MarksDelay(n)
> > set laterTime to (current date)+n
> > repeat
> > if (current date) > laterTime then exit repeat
> > end
> > end
>
> This one slows my machine down and makes the process I'm monitoring take
> much longer to finish.
That it would.
-Mark
Time to get back to work...
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