Re: Precise timing

• Subject: Re: Precise timing
• From: has <email@hidden>
• Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:37:00 +0000
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Gil Dawson wrote:

>I'm trying to get my lyrics to scroll with my CD, but the timing isn't precise enough.
>
>I was wondering whether anyone might kow of a better way to time my pulses.
>
>on idle
>tell application "Microsoft Word"
>               tell window 1
>                        small scroll down 1
>                end tell
>        end tell
>        return 0.7
>end idle

Wrap the application command in an 'ignoring application responses' block to eliminate the additional unpredictable delay due to waiting for Word to perform the action and send a reply.

has
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