Re: Stay Open
Re: Stay Open
- Subject: Re: Stay Open
- From: "Stephen Swift (aka Burnum)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 20:45:21 -0500
At 1/2/01 8:28 AM, email@hidden
(email@hidden) Wrote:
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"Stay Open" script applications are used in conjunction with idle
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handlers. An idle handler performs any action that a script can do and
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then "goes to sleep" for a specified period of time, after which it does
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the same thing all over again, until the script shuts itself down or
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somebody quits it. It performs a "slow loop", without the disadvantages
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of putting cycle-eating loops in scripts.
Ah... See that's where I was getting confused. I was wondering how it was
efficient to keep a script in the background.
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A typical use would be to
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monitor something like a process being active or a folder having files
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or who's logged on.
So I would use a stay open script if I wanted to change my desktop picture
every 15 min?
Stephen Swift ?' (The Burnum Man)
email@hidden
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